Sugar is part of what makes it taste like-- bacon! Otherwise, it's fatback. If you notice, sugar is listed after salt as an ingredient. All ingredients are listed in descending order by weight. So there are less than 240 mg of sugar (the amount of salt) in the particular piece of bacon I'm looking at. I suppose there might be one or two grams of sugar in a pound of bacon, but not in a serving. I wouldn't get really wound up about the sugar unless you eat the proverbial fivepoundsofbaconaday! Or unless you find yourself so sensitive to sugar you need to avoid ALL sugars.