Monday, November 22, 2010

25 alternate words for sugar

We are entering the homeward straight for NOsugarVEMBER but something dawned on me this morning - have we been looking out for all of the clever ways in which sugar is given a shifty disguise under a different and sometimes confusing name?

 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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