Too much sugar

Muito açúcar
Do you really know how much of the sweet stuff you eat? Neil and Rob talk
about sugar and teach you some tempting new vocabulary.

Você realmente sabe quanto das coisas doces que você come? Neil e Rob
falam sobre o açúcar e ensinam-lhe um novo e tentador vocabulário.

This week's question

Pergunta da semana

If a food contains 5% total sugars per 100g, is it…

Se uma comida contém 5% total de açucar por 100G, isso é...
a) high in sugar
a) alto em açúcar
b) low in sugar or
b) baixo em açúcar
c) somewhere in the middle?
c) em algum lugar no meio

Vocabulary
Vocabulário

have a sweet tooth

tem um dente doce
like sugary things
como coisas açucaradas

processed food
aliemntos processadas
any food that has been changed in some way by freezing it, putting it in
tins, combining foods or adding chemicals
qualquer comida que tenha sido alterada em alguma forma por congeal-la,
colocando em latas, combinando alimentos ou adilção de produtos químicos.

at a glance
de relance
with a quick look
com um olhar rapido

fat-free
livre de gordura
without any fat in it
sem qualquer gordura nele

avoid something at all costs

evitar algo a qualquer custo
do everything you can to avoid it
fazer tudo o que você puder para evitar isso

demonise
demonizar
make someone or something seem very bad
fazer alguém ou alguma coisa parecer muito ruim

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Rob
I’m Rob. Welcome to 6 Minute English – we’ve got a sweet topic today, and six
tempting items of vocabulary.
Sou Rob. Bem vindo ao inglês 6 minutos – temos um doce tópico hoje, e seis
tentadores itens de vocabulário.

Neil
Hello, I’m Neil. And we’re going to be talking about sugar – which many of us
find tempting. But how much is too much, Rob?
Olá, eu sou Neil. E nós vamos estar falando sobre o açúcar- que muitos de nós
achamos tentador. Mas quanto é muito?

Rob
I don’t know, Neil, but hopefully we’ll be finding that out. I must admit though –
I have a sweet tooth – and that means I like sugary things!
Eu nao sei, Neil, mas esperamos descobrir isso. Devo admitir que – eu tenho
um dente doce – e isso significa eu gosto de coisas açuradas.

Neil
Me too. But something I’m always seeing in the news these days is that we’re
eating too much sugar. And one important factor is that sugars are sometimes
hidden in processed foods.
Eu também. Mas algo que eu sempre vejo nos noticiários hoje em dia é que
comemos muito açúcar. E um fato importante é que açucares as vezes são
escondidos em alimentos processados.

Rob
Processed food is any food that has been changed in some way – by freezing
it or putting it in tins – or by combining foods or adding chemicals. In fact, some
of the sugars we eat are hidden in food that we think of as healthy. Such as
yoghurts, low fat snacks, and fruit drinks.
Alimento processado é qualquer alimento que tenha sido mudado de alguma
forma.- Congelando ou colocando em latas.- ou combinando comidas ou
adicionando produtos químicos. De fato, alguns açucares que comemos estão
escondidos em alimentos que pensamos ser saudável. Tais como iorgutes,
lanches de baixo teor de gordura e bebidas de frutas.

Neil
Do you check the information on the back of food packets, Rob? – To see
what’s in them? Você verifica as informações atras das embalagens de comida,
Rob? - Para ver o que tem neles?
Rob
Yes, I do. But it can be very confusing – there’s so much information. And I’m
not always sure how much of a certain thing is bad.
Sim, eu faço. Mas isso pode ser muito confuso –há muita informação. E eu
nem sempre tenho certeza de quanto de uma certa coisa é ruim.

Neil
Well, that brings me onto today’s quiz question. Can you tell me, if a food
contains 5% total sugars per 100g, is it…
Bem, isso me leva a outra questão do quis de hoje. Pode me dizer, se um
alimento contém 5% açucares totais por 100g, ele é...

a) high in sugar,
a)alto em açucar (rico em açucar)
b) low in sugar or
b)baixo teor de açucar
c) somewhere in the middle?
c)em algum lugar no meio

Rob
I’ll say low, Neil.
Vou dizer baixo, Neil

Neil
OK. Well, we'll find out later. Some food products have colour coding on the
packaging to help you understand the information, don’t they? – red for high
levels of sugar, salt or fat– orange for medium, and green for low.
Ok, bom, iremos descobrir mais tarde. Alguns produtos alimenticios tem um
codico de cores na embalagem para ajudar você entender as informações, não
é? Vermelho para alto nível (teor) de açúcar, sal ou gordura- laranja para
médio, e verde para baixo.

Rob
That sounds helpful. Then you can see at a glance what’s good or bad for you.
Isso soa útil. Então você pode ver de reliance o que é bom ou ruim para você.

Neil
At a glance means with a quick look. OK, let’s listen now to BBC reporter
Rajeev Gupta interviewing a man in Chester, in the UK. He’s asking him to
guess how much sugar there is in a pot of fat-free yoghurt.
De relance significa com um olhar rápido. Ok, vamos ouvir agora o repórter da
BBC Rajeev Gupta entrevistando um homem em Chester, no UK. Ele está
pedindo para ele adivinhar quanto açúcar tem em um pode de iorgut sem
gordura.

INSERT
Rajeev Gupta, reporter interviewing a man in Chester
Reporter: I've actually got a pot of yoghurt in front of me. This says 'fat-free' on
it and it's been marketed as being quite healthy. If I was to say how much sugar
is in here, what would you say as… say is the quantity of the tub?
Interviewee: I’d probably think maybe a couple of teaspoonfuls, you know, it’s
quite surprising how much is sugars in all these products, isn’t there?
Reporter: Well, there’s about a third of this yoghurt pot is actually sugar.
Interviewee: To be honest, that’s quite amazing, that. I would never have
thought a third of that would have been sugar just by looking at it. And it does
say it’s fat-free.

Neil
So the yoghurt is fat-free, which means it doesn’t contain any fat. And the man
guessed there might be two teaspoons of sugar in the yoghurt.
Entao o iorgute livre de gordura, o que significa que não contem alguma
gordura. E esse homem adivinhou que poderia haver duas colheres de chá de
açúcar no iorgute.

Rob
That’s right. And if something is sugar-free then it doesn’t contain any sugar.
But in this case, a third of the yoghurt’s content was sugar. That, to me, sounds
like an awful lot – even for someone with a sweet tooth like me!
Isso ai. E se algo está sem açúcar, então não contém açúcar. Mas nesse caso,
um terço dos conteúdos do iorgute era açúcar. Isso, para mim, parece muito –
mesmo para alguém com um dente doce como eu!

Neil
OK, well, let’s listen to Dr Gunter Kuhnle. He’s a Nutritional Biochemist at
Reading University.

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Dr Gunter Kuhnle, nutritional biochemist at Reading University, UK
One problem we see – nutritionists – is sort of this focusing on any individual
foods – at one time it was that fat has to be avoided at all costs, now it seems to
go towards sugar and sugar is demonised and people link it to drugs and so on.
I think this is the wrong way forward. Individuals, yes, you should have a
balanced diet. It is important also to enjoy your food and not do this extreme
focusing on one side or one aspect and individual nutrients.

Rob
So if you avoid something at all costs you do everything you can to avoid it.
And demonise means to make someone or something seem very bad.

Neil
Dr Kuhnle thinks that totally cutting out one type of food like this – whether it’s
fat or sugar – is wrong. He thinks we should eat a balanced diet – and enjoy our
food.

Rob
That sounds very sensible. Now, how about telling us the answer to today’s quiz
question, Neil?

Neil
Thanks for reminding me, Rob. I asked: if food contains 5% total sugars per
100g, is it… a) high in sugar, b) low in sugar or c) somewhere in the middle?
You said low… and you were… right! Well done!

Rob
Thank you.
Neil
If foods contain more than 22.5% total sugars per 100g they are classified as
high.

Rob
And I guess that between 5 and 22.5% they are somewhere in the middle.

Neil
Correct! OK, shall we go over the words we heard today?

Rob
Yep. First up – if you have a ‘sweet tooth’ it means you like sugary things. For
example, ‘My little nephew has a sweet tooth. He eats far too many biscuits and
sweets.’

Neil
His dentist won’t be pleased! Number two – ‘processed food’ is any food that
has been changed in some way – by freezing it or putting it in tins – or by
combining foods or adding chemicals.

Rob
For example, ‘The meat in sausages is highly processed.’

Neil
Oh dear, I didn’t know that. I’m a big fan of sausages!

Rob
Number three – ‘at a glance’ – means with a quick look.

Neil
For example, 'I could tell at a glance that I wouldn’t like the food at that
restaurant.’

Rob
‘Fat-free’ means without any fat in it. For example, ‘I bought this yoghurt
because it says fat-free on the label.’

Neil
Aha – but did you realise that a third of it was sugar! Moving on – If you avoid
something‘at all costs’ you do everything you can to avoid it. For example, ‘I
wanted to win the game at all costs.’

Rob
I didn’t know you were so competitive, Neil! And finally – ‘demonise’ – means to
make someone or something seem very bad.

Neil
‘Politicians shouldn’t demonise their opponents.’

Rob
They often do though, don’t they? OK. Well, that’s all we have time for on
today’s show. But please check out our Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and
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Neil
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where you'll find guides to grammar, exercises, videos and articles to read and
improve your English. Goodbye!

Rob
Bye!