How to Steer Clear of Added Sugar
So you know to monitor foods that contain the words: sugar, sucrose, or fructose. But what about less common designators: dextran, Ethyl Maltol, or Panela?
Just because a label says no “refined sugar” doesn’t mean there’s not a type of sugar other than white sugar in the product. Often the suffixes “syrup” or “ose” designate a sugar. To help identify sugars in your foods check for the following ingredients:
- Blackstrap molasses
- Buttered syrup
- Cane juice crystals
- Evaporated cane juice
- Caramel
- Carob syrup
- Fruit juice
- Honey
- Fruit juice concentrate
- Brown rice syrup
- Corn syrup solids
- Florida crystals
- Golden syrup
- Maple syrup
- Molasses
- Refiner’s syrup
- Sorghum syrup
- Sucanat
- Treacle
- Turbinado
- Barley malt
- Corn syrup
- Dextrin
- Dextrose
- Diastatic malt
- Ethyl maltol
- Glucose
- Glucose solids
- Lactose
- Malt syrup
- Maltose
- D-ribose
- Rice syrup
- Galactose
- Maltodextrin
- Castor
