This video was posted to YT 11 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM It's very difficult to eliminate sugar from your diet. The food industry has almost 55 different terms for sugar to hide it. The easiest thing to do is stop, or at least restrict, eating things from boxes, can and jars.

Bags as well, the bread in the grocery stores is full of sugar. In the US anyway.

For countries that have compulsory food labelling, is it sufficient to just look at the carbohydrate content as a proxy for the upper bound on sugar content? Of course I'm not talking about artificial sweeteners which is another can of worms.

Taubes seems to be professionally dishonest and misrepresent people to push his Atkins diet and make profit.

The Atkins diet isn't Taubes'. Everybody is pushing something these days, that is not proof that their message is misleading.

Hardly crucified. He published a couple of books, has some followers, made a business.