About Sugar Check for Kids

Why we built this

I'm Sarah - mom of three, and I used to spend twenty minutes every grocery run flipping over snack packages in the aisle. The front says "made with whole grains." The back says 14g of added sugar. The one next to it says "fruit-forward." The back says 11g. None of the packaging tells you what you actually want to know.

I know too much sugar is bad. I want to make better choices. But the information is buried, inconsistent, and honestly - designed to confuse.

So I built the tool I wished existed. Every popular kids snack, rated A through E on a single consistent scale, so you can decide in seconds instead of minutes.

How it works

Every product in our database is rated against the actual nutrition facts panel - specifically the added sugars line, which the FDA required manufacturers to disclose precisely because total sugar alone doesn't distinguish fruit sugar from table sugar.

• Product data sourced from Open Food Facts, a community-maintained nutrition database
• Tiers assigned by our classification rules, verified by AI on ambiguous cases
• No brand can pay to improve its rating - the tier comes purely from the label
• Products are updated when nutrition data changes

The A-E Sugar Tier System

The American Heart Association recommends children under 2 consume no added sugar at all, and children 2-18 limit added sugar to under 25g per day.

What we are not

• Not a medical resource. Talk to your pediatrician about your child's specific dietary needs.
• Not affiliated with or sponsored by any food brand.
• Not a substitute for reading the label yourself - we show you the data, you make the call.
• Our data comes from Open Food Facts and may occasionally lag behind packaging changes.