There is excess sugar in No Added Sugar Muesli

[Kalabata]

I have just watched the Channel 4 News item on diabetes and excess sugar which was shocking.
Why do you have to wash out the excess sugar in No Added Sugar Muesli?
If you place the muesli in a strainer under a little warm water you will get a lot of sweet sugar water. Surely this can't be right as its supposed to have no added sugar?

When you bite into an apple, you get sweet sugar water, but they don’t have added sugar, do they?

Refined added sugar isn’t the only source of sugar in food.

@Kalabata “no added sugar” literally means that they haven’t added any sugar

so the natural sugars are still there.

and they might have added all kinds of other things, just not sugar.

It has milk powder and whey powder so they will be sweet. And also added raisins.

That makes sense.... so that is what is being washed out under the tap tasting sweet...and probably not what you count as healthy.

No added sugar only means no table sugar added. There are infinite ways in which you can put sugar in a product and yet label it no added sugar.
In kids' food it is fruit juice concentrate for example. Dried fruit such as raising is often used to add sweetness. Then of course lactose in the form of dry milk.

The only way to tell is to flip the packet and read the nutritional label and the sugar line.