SUGAR, BY ANY OTHER NAME IS STILL SUGAR…
Food companies often try to hide the sugar they add to their foods by giving it a different, more healthy-sounding name. Or, they will use the manufacturer’s name of the chemical they use instead of real sugar.
Don’t be fooled; you are smarter than they think! Here is a list of different words that mean sugar (names of sugar) compiled by our friend and Certified Diabetes Educator, Nicole Recine RN, MSN. Thank you Nicole!
WORDS THAT MEAN SUGAR
| Agave Nectar
Barley Malt Syrup Beet Sugar Brown Rice Syrup Brown Sugar Cane Crystals Cane juice crystals Cane Sugar Coconut Sugar, or Coconut Palm Sugar Corn Sugar Corn sweetener Corn syrup, or corn syrup solids Dehydrated Cane Juice |
Dextrin
Dextrose Evaporated Cane Juice Fructose Fruit juice concentrate Fruit Juice Sweetened Glucose High-fructose corn syrup Honey Invert sugar Lactose Maltodextrin Malt syrup |
Maltose
Maple syrup Molasses Palm Sugar Raw sugar Rice Syrup Saccharose Sorghum or Sucrose Syrup Treacle Turbinado Sugar Xylose |