Who You Calling Sugar?
I was going to do an article on the other names of sugar. However, I found a good article that already covered most of the names that food companies use to “cover up” the word sugar. A woman by the name of Fit Sugar wrote this blog and I think it is of value for my clients to help them when reading food labels and ingredients. Check the original posting here. One small addition I want to add. Don’t be fooled if the words “organic” or “natural” are added to these sugar terms. It may be organic, but it is still sugar and excessive simple sugar intake compromises fat release. People’s attempt to lose fails due to this all the time! Keep yourself in check and eat carbohydrates that are more complex and in their natural states, which means not refined. Enjoy the article!
Be Better,
Dexter
If you’re trying to cut sugar out of your diet, the best way to go about it is by reading labels. If nutritional labels just said “sugar,” the task of cutting sugar out would be easy, but they don’t so it’s not. There are many more names of sugar out there and this handy little list reveals them all.
- barley malt
- beet sugar
- brown sugar
- buttered syrup
- cane-juice crystals
- cane sugar
- caramel
- carob syrup
- corn syrup
- corn syrup solids
That’s just a small taste of it. There are many, many more so read more
- date sugar
- dextran
- dextrose
- diatase
- diastatic malt
- ethyl maltol
- fructose
- fruit juice
- fruit juice concentrate
- glucose
- glucose solids
- golden sugar
- golden syrup
- grape sugar
- high-fructose corn syrup
- honey
- invert sugar
- lactose
- malt syrup
- maltodextrin
- maltose
- mannitol
- molasses
- raw sugar
- refiner’s syrup
- sorbitol
- sorghum syrup
- sucrose
- sugar
- turbinado sugar
- yellow sugar
