Hidden Names for Sugar
As I discussed in Episode 3 of my podcast, when reading a nutrition label companies will often give sugar different names in order to hide the fact that the product contains sugar. Here are some different names of sugar you may find on a nutrition label:
o Barley malt
o Buttered syrup
o Cane juice
o Caramel
o Carob syrup
o Confectioner’s sugar
o Corn sweetener
o Corn syrup
o Dehydrated cane juice
o Dextrin
o Dextrose
o Evaporated cane juice
o Fructose
o Fruit juice
o Glucose
o High –fructose corn syrup
o Maltodextrin
o Muscovado
o Palm sugar
o Rice syrup
o Saccharose
o Sorghum syrup
o Sucrose
o Sucralose
o Sugar
o Sweet sorghum
o Treacle
o Turbinado sugar