7
Feb
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:
- Agave
- Agave Nectar
- Agave Syrup
- Amasake
- Any name ending in “ose” or “ol” or “syrup”
- Barbados Sugar
- Barley Malt
- Beet Sugar
- Blackstrap Molasses
- Black Sugar
- Brown Rice Syrup
- Brown Sugar – the refined sugar coated with molasses or colored with caramel
- Buttered Syrup
- Cane Juice
- Cane Juice Crystals
- Cane Sugar
- Caramel
- Caramel Coloring
- Carob Syrup
- Castor Sugar
- Coconut Sugar
- Confectioner’s Sugar
- Corn Sweetener
- Corn Syrup
- Corn Syrup Solids
- Crystalline Fructose
- Crystallized Cane Juice
- D-mannose
- Date Sugar
- Date Palm Sugar
- Demerara
- Demerara Sugar
- Dehydrated Cane Juice
- Dehydrated Cane Juice Crystals
- Dextran
- Dextrin
- Dextrine
- Dextrose (glucose) – a simple sugar made of only one molecule
- Disaccharides
- Ethyl Maltol
- Evaporated Cane Juice
- Evaporated Cane Juice Sugar
- Florida Crystals™
- Fructose – a simple sugar refined from fruit
- Fruit Juice
- Fruit Juice Concentrate
- Galactose
- Glucose
- Glucose Solids
- Glucose Syrup
- Golden Syrup
- Grape Sugar
- Grape Sweetener
- High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) – highly concentrated syrup of predominantly fructose
- Honey
- Hydrolyzed Starch
- Hydrogenated Glucose Syrup
- Hydrogenated Starch Hydrolysates (HSH)
- Icing Sugar
- Invert Sugar
- Isomalt
- Levulose
- Lactitol
- Lactose – a simple sugar from milk
- Liqueur
- Malt
- Malt Extract
- Malt Syrup
- Maltodextrin – a manufactured sugar from maltose and dextrose
- Maltose – a simple sugar made from starch, usually grains
- Mannitol
- Maple Syrup
- Molasses
- Monk Fruit
- Monk Fruit Sweetener
- Monosaccharide
- Muscovado
- Natural Sweetener – sometimes used in place of High Fructose Corn Syrup
- Organic Dehydrated Cane Juice
- Palm Sugar
- Panocha
- Polysaccharide
- Powdered Sugar
- Raw Cane Crystals
- Raw Honey
- Raw Sugar – a less refined sugar with a small amount of molasses remaining
- Refiner’s Syrup
- Ribose
- Rice Extract
- Rice Malt
- Rice Syrup
- Saccharide
- Saccharose
- Sorghum
- Sorghum Syrup
- Sorbitol
- Sucanat
- Sucrose
- Sugar (sucrose) – the refined crystallized sugar; a combination of glucose and fructose
- Sugar (granulated)
- Sugar (pearl)
- Sweet Sorghum
- Sweetener
- Syrup
- Table Sugar
- Treacle
- Turbinado
- Turbinado Sugar
- Turbinado Syrup
- Unbleached Crystallized Evaporated Cane Juice
- Unbleached Evaporated Sugar Cane Juice Crystals
- Unbleached Sugar Cane
- Unrefined Cane Juice Crystals
- Washed Cane Juice Crystals
- White Grape Juice – a highly purified fructose solution; virtually no other nutrients are present
- Yellow Sugar
- Xylose
Wow, that is a whole lot of sneakiness