Sugar in All It’s Forms

Sugar tends to hide in the craziest places in our food labels. When trying to avoid sugar, it’s dizzying to try to figure out what is sugar in those ingredient labels. Here is a list of some common names for sugar.

+ Sugar (cane, brown, raw, confectioner’s, beet, etc)

+ Syrup (high fructose corn syrup, malt syrup, refiner’s syrup, rice syrup, date syrup, etc)

+ Science-y names (dextrose, sucrose, disaccharide, fructose, glucose, galactose, lactose, maltose, monosaccharide, polysaccharide, ribose, saccharose)

+ Natural sugar (agave nectar, coconut nectar, coconut sugar, date sugar, evaporated cane juice, fruit juice, honey, maple syrup, molasses, monk fruit extract, rice malt/extract, sorghum, treacle)

+ Artificial sweeteners (aspartame, acesulfame-K, equal, nutra-sweet, saccharin, splenda, stevia, sucralose, sweet leaf, sweet-n-low, trivia)

+ Sugar alcohols (arabitol, dulcitol, erythritol, glycol, glycerin/glycerol, HSH, idiot, isomalt, lactitol, maltitol, mannitol, polyglycitol, ribitol, sorbitol, threitol, xylitol)