Here are 25 different words for sugar and you should be looking out for and avoiding also:
Brown-rice syrup
Corn sweetener
Corn syrup
Cane Juice
Dextrin
Dextrose
Fructose
Fruit juice concentrate
Glucose
High-fructose corn syrup
Honey
Lactose
Maltodextrin
Malt syrup
Maltose
Mannitol
Maple syrup
Molasses
Rice Syrup
Saccharose
Sorbitol
Sorghum or sorghum syrup
Sucrose
Syrup
Treacle
As a general rule if it ends in 'ose' or 'ol' it is likely to be sugar and if it is listed in one of the first three ingredients it is 'high' in sugar. Choosing products that have less than 10g per 100g of sugar is a good rule of thumb when reading food labels.
Can you think of any other hidden names for sugar?
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