The Art of Dodging Sugar in your Food
To summarise the ones I have most commonly seen on labels in Australia : Glucose, Evaporated cane juice, Fruit juice concentrate, fructose, Caramel, Agave nectar, Honey, Molassas, Muscovado, Rice syrup, Raw sugar, Sucrose, Sugar (granulated), Dextrose, Corn syrup, Cane Juice and the absolute worst of the bunch: High fructose corn syrup.
Here is the extensive list to watch out for:
- Agave Nectar
- Barbados sugar
- Barley Malt
- Barley Malt Syrup
- Beet Sugar
- Brown sugar
- Buttered Syrup
- Cane Juice
- Cane juice crystals
- Cane sugar
- Caramel
- Carob syrup
- Castor sugar
- Coconut palm sugar
- Coconut sugar
- Confectioner’s sugar
- Corn sweetener
- Corn syrup
- Corn syrup solids
- Date sugar
- Dehydrated cane juice
- Demerara sugar
- Dextrin
- Dextrose
- Evaporated cane juice
- Free flowing brown sugars
- Fructose
- Fruit juice
- Fruit juice concentrate
- Glucose
- Glucose solids
- Golden sugar
- Golden syrup
- Grape sugar
- High-fructose Corn Syrup – THE WORST
- Honey
- Icing sugar
- Invert sugar
- Malt syrup
- Maltodextrin
- Maltol
- Maltose
- Mannose
- Maple syrup
- Molasses
- Muscovado
- Palm sugar
- Panocha
- Powdered sugar
- Raw sugar
- Refiner’s syrup
- Rice syrup
- Saccharose
- Sorghum syrup
- Sucrose
- Granulated sugar
- Sweet sorghum
- Syrup
- Treacle
- Turbinado Sugar
- Yellow sugar
You’ve got the list.
Knowledge is power 🙂
Written by reemasaabnaturopathy
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