The Many Names for Sugar

Processed food manufacturers are sneaky when it comes to slipping sugar into their products. They try to use different sources of sugar under different names to hide the fact that it all boils down to the same thing – SUGAR! Here is a list of just some of the names that sugars and sweeteners can hide under:

1. Agave
2. Agave Nectar
3. Agave Syrup
4. Amasake
5. Any name ending in “ose” or “ol” or “syrup”
6. Barbados Sugar
7. Barley Malt
8. Beet Sugar
9. Blackstrap Molasses
10. Black Sugar
11. Brown Rice Syrup
12. Brown Sugar – the refined sugar coated with molasses or colored with caramel
13. Buttered Syrup
14. Cane Juice
15. Cane Juice Crystals
16. Cane Sugar
17. Caramel
18. Caramel Coloring
19. Carob Syrup
20. Castor Sugar
21. Coconut Sugar
22. Confectioner’s Sugar
23. Corn Sweetener
24. Corn Syrup
25. Corn Syrup Solids
26. Crystalline Fructose
27. Crystallized Cane Juice
28. D-mannose
29. Date Sugar
30. Date Palm Sugar
31. Demerara
32. Demerara Sugar
33. Dehydrated Cane Juice
34. Dehydrated Cane Juice Crystals
35. Dextran
36. Dextrin
37. Dextrine
38. Dextrose (glucose) – a simple sugar made of only one molecule
39. Disaccharides
40. Ethyl Maltol
41. Evaporated Cane Juice
42. Evaporated Cane Juice Sugar
43. Florida Crystals™
44. Fructose – a simple sugar refined from fruit
45. Fruit Juice
46. Fruit Juice Concentrate
47. Galactose
48. Glucose
49. Glucose Solids
50. Glucose Syrup
51. Golden Syrup
52. Grape Sugar
53. Grape Sweetener
54. High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) – highly concentrated syrup of predominantly fructose
55. Honey
56. Hydrolyzed Starch
57. Hydrogenated Glucose Syrup
58. Hydrogenated Starch Hydrolysates (HSH)
59. Icing Sugar
60. Invert Sugar
61. Isomalt
62. Levulose
63. Lactitol
64. Lactose – a simple sugar from milk
65. Liqueur
66. Malt
67. Malt Extract
68. Malt Syrup
69. Maltodextrin – a manufactured sugar from maltose and dextrose
70. Maltose – a simple sugar made from starch, usually grains
71. Mannitol
72. Maple Syrup
73. Molasses
74. Monk Fruit
75. Monk Fruit Sweetener
76. Monosaccharide
77. Muscovado
78. Natural Sweetener – sometimes used in place of High Fructose Corn Syrup
79. Organic Dehydrated Cane Juice
80. Palm Sugar
81. Panocha
82. Polysaccharide
83. Powdered Sugar
84. Raw Cane Crystals
85. Raw Honey
86. Raw Sugar – a less refined sugar with a small amount of molasses remaining
87. Refiner’s Syrup
88. Ribose
89. Rice Extract
90. Rice Malt
91. Rice Syrup
92. Saccharide
93. Saccharose
94. Sorghum
95. Sorghum Syrup
96. Sorbitol
97. Sucanat
98. Sucrose
99. Sugar (sucrose) – the refined crystallized sugar; a combination of glucose and fructose
100. Sugar (granulated)
101. Sugar (pearl)
102. Sweet Sorghum
103. Sweetener
104. Syrup
105. Table Sugar
106. Treacle
107. Turbinado
108. Turbinado Sugar
109. Turbinado Syrup
110. Unbleached Crystallized Evaporated Cane Juice
111. Unbleached Evaporated Sugar Cane Juice Crystals
112. Unbleached Sugar Cane
113. Unrefined Cane Juice Crystals
114. Washed Cane Juice Crystals
115. White Grape Juice – a highly purified fructose solution; virtually no other nutrients are present
116. Yellow Sugar
117. Xylose