Sugars, granulated

Plain granulated table sugar scores 3 of 100 (Low band), ranking 55th of 60 in Sweets, below the category's median of 9. There is nothing here in the way of vitamins, minerals, protein, or fat; the 387 calories per 100 grams are carbohydrate from start to finish, with essentially no fiber.

It's stirred into coffee and baked into everything from bread to cookies, sold in single-serving packets weighing about 3 grams each for exactly this purpose. The number worth knowing is that it's high in sugars at 99.8 grams per 100 grams, close to the practical maximum for a food, so it contributes calories without other nutrients. Powdered sugar scores slightly higher in the same lineup, for what that's worth in a sugar-to-sugar comparison.