Tuesday Tip: It Doesn’t Say Sugar!?!
TIP: Do not only look at the grams of sugar per serving on your nutrition label, but check the ingredient list and see if sugar or sweetener has been added.
Sugar and sugar substitutes come with numerous aliases and let’s be honest, companies add sweetener to their products to make you (the consumer) want it and keep coming back to buy more! So read your labels and be on the lookout for the following words which you may skim over because it doesn’t say S.U.G.A.R.
- Anhydrous dextrose
- Agave
- Agave nectar
- Aspartame
- Beet sugar
- Brown sugar (light and dark brown)
- Cane juice
- Cane juice solids
- Cane sugar & Cane syrup
- Caramel
- Carob syrup
- Coconut sugar
- Confectioners’ sugar
- Corn syrup & Corn syrup solids
- Crystalline fructose
- Date sugar
- Dextran
- Dextrose
- Dehydrated cane juice
- Equal
- Ethyl Maltol
- Evaporated cane juice
- Fructose
- Fruit juice crystals
- Fruit juice concentrate
- Glucose & Glucose syrup
- Glycerol
- Granulated sugar
- High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS)
- Honey
- Icing
- Invert Sugar & Invert Syrup
- Isomalt
- Lactose
- Maple syrup
- Maple sugar
- Maltodextrin
- Maltose
- Malt sugar & Malt Syrup
- Molasses
- Nectar
- Neotame
- NutriSweet
- Raw sugar
- Refiners’ syrup
- Rice Syrup
- Saccharine
- Sorbitol
- Sorghum & Sorghum Syrup
- Sucanat
- Sucralose
- Sucrose
- Sugar Alcohol
- Treacle
- Turbinado sugar
