Can you believe there are 50 different names for sugar?
No wonder it’s tough to look at ingredient lists and really know what you’re getting!
Even supposed “health foods” often contain hidden sugars disguised under “natural” or fancy names that almost sound good for you.
But make no mistake – they are far from good for you! Anything with sugar spikes your blood sugar levels and works like glue for your digestive tract, liver, and brain.
And the scary part is that more than 80% of the packaged foods you buy in the grocery stores come with hidden sugars!
That’s a lot to look out for with many confusing names, which is why it’s important that you check labels carefully, especially on foods that are likely suspects including:
- Bread
- Breakfast cereals
- Cookies
- Snack foods and other processed foods
- Soda and other carbonated beverages
- Chewing gum
- Chewable vitamins
- Desserts and dessert mixes
- Diet foods
- Frozen foods
- Protein bars and breakfast bars
- Juices
- Jam
- Yogurt
- Tomato sauce
Among those foods, what many people don’t realize is that the same ingredient list can have 3 or 4 different types of sugar!
So keep this list at the ready next time you’re at the grocery store wondering what’s really inside the foods you buy.
The 50 Different Names for Sugar:
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Brown sugar
- Cane juice
- Cane sugar (or cane sugar extract)
- Caramel
- Carob syrup
- Caster sugar
- Confectioner’s sugar
- Dehydrated cane juice
- Demerara
- Dextran
- Dextrose
- Ethyl maltol
- Fructose (the worst sugar of them all)
- Galactose
- Golden syrup
- Glucose
- Glucose solids
- Gluco-malt
- Invert sugar
- Lactose
- Malt
- Malt syrup
- Maltodextrin
- Maltose
- Muscovado sugar
- Molasses
- Panela
- Rapadura
- Raw sugar
- Refiners syrup
- Sorghum syrup
- Sucrose
- Treacle
- Turbinado sugar
Derived from other natural sources (but still sugar!):
- Agave nectar
- Barley malt syrup
- Beet sugar
- Brown rice syrup
- Coconut sugar
- Corn sugar
- Corn syrup
- Corn syrup solids
- Date sugar
- Fruit juice concentrate
- Fruit sugar
- High fructose corn syrup
- Honey (including raw honey)
- Karo
- Maple syrup
- Palm sugar
So what’s a better alternative to all of those nasty sugars? Look for organic liquid stevia or lo han berry (AKA monkfruit) instead of all of these ingredients. They won’t spike your blood sugar, won’t mess with your digestion, and – best of all – won’t fill you with toxic artificial sweeteners.
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