[Etheryte]

Just for context, total sugar is the only thing shown on European food labels. Makes it somewhat annoying the other way around, it's hard to figure out if it's just the sugars the ingredients contained or if it's stuffed with extra. I prefer this worry over the other option though. In a perfect world we would have both.

[illiac786]

If sugar is added, it’s in the ingredients list in the EU. They are sorted by decreasing amount, hence while you won’t be able to tell exactly how much was added, you can narrow it down. But sometimes they add different sugar types and it becomes really difficult to estimate the quantity of added sugar.

Hence I would say it’s easy to know if sugar is added if you know the names it goes by. But it’s difficult to know how much.

[lolinder]

The US does have both as of 2018:

https://www.fda.gov/media/99331/download

It has had total sugars for as long as I've known the labels, and was changed in 2018 to break out added sugars. I'm not at all sure what OP is thinking.