Sugar in "healthy" snacks

Sugar; the great debate. On one side of the spectrum of opinion, it is viewed as a highly addictive chemical designed to weaken our society for control. That is the extreme side. On the other side, some say it is simply a sweetener to make food taste better. Obviously, there are a lot of views in between. While I am not writing my opinion today, I am suggesting it is in a lot more than one might suspect, even when healthy eating is the goal. 

I frequent "health food" stores, for the simple fact that they normally have the things I eat or are interested in trying out (crickets is next up on my experimentation plate). Today, I was feeling some coconut as a treat. In this store, It took me ten minutes to find a snack without a type of sugar in it. Every power bar, every snack, every "natural", "organic", and "non-gmo" thing I could find had sugar hidden in the ingredients list. I find it intriguing, because I often run into this problem when looking for snacks or treats. 

I am currently avoiding sugar additives, so while I can enjoy strawberries, I cannot enjoy strawberry flavoured products.

For your own health, start looking at the healthy things you are eating. Check out if there are sugar additives, natural flavours, or weird names you are not familiar with. If there is, is it really that healthy? Would there be better, truly healthier ways to eat and snack? Do not fall trap for words like natural and non-gmo.... The food industry adapts as we do, stay ahead of the curve!