alt Hacker NewsThis is basically standard practice worldwide for most "sugar free" products. Most common sources are dates, apple juice concentrate, honey in my experience.
Products actually using erythritol, mannitol, or xylitol instead are a rarity.
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aitchnyu • today at 9:54 AM
Thankfully, they cracked down on "no sugar added" products sweetened with evaporated cane juice.
poulpy123 • today at 9:23 AM
At least in several countries in Europe, sugar free is when there is less than 0.5% of sugar and when there is no sugar added it's "ni sugar added"
Where is that the case? In eu at least that is commonly called like "contains naturally occuring sugars" and "no added sugar". "Sugar free" is more specific and should contain <0.5g sugars/100g or ml.
"Sugar free" usually implies that it uses sweeteners instead of sugar.
These are nutrition claims and they are regulated [0]
https://food.ec.europa.eu/food-safety/labelling-and-nutritio...