I don’t think that’s what it means. Apples are sweet. You can make applesauce out of it without adding any sugar (no matter what kind of sugar) and it’s still pretty sweet. Throw some ripe strawberries or something in and it’s got more sweetness, but still no added sugars, just another food that happens to have naturally-occurring sugars within. You can then add more sugar (even if it was extracted from a plant with naturally-occurring sugars) to make it sweeter yet, and THAT’S where the added sugars come into play.
The weasel word is ‘added’ sugar. If you sweeten something with naturally occurring sugars it doesn’t count.
If you add sugars, even natural ones, to an item, those are added sugars.
I don’t think that’s what it means. Apples are sweet. You can make applesauce out of it without adding any sugar (no matter what kind of sugar) and it’s still pretty sweet. Throw some ripe strawberries or something in and it’s got more sweetness, but still no added sugars, just another food that happens to have naturally-occurring sugars within. You can then add more sugar (even if it was extracted from a plant with naturally-occurring sugars) to make it sweeter yet, and THAT’S where the added sugars come into play.