Hidden Sugars: Where to Look
Do you know how much sugar you consume daily? Obviously, there are candies and baked goods, alcohol and sodas. But do you know the other names that sugar goes by? Listed below are a few of the more "covert" names by which the sweet stuff may go:
- Barley malt
- Buttered syrup
- Cane-juice crystals
- Cane sugar
- Beet sugar
- Caramel
- Carob syrup
- Corn syrup (solids)
- Date sugar
- Dextran
- Dextrose
- Diatase
- Diastatic malt
- Ethyl maltol
- Glucose (solids)
- Golden sugar
- Golden syrup
- High-fructose corn syrup
- Honey
- Invert sugar
- Lactose
- Malt syrup
- Maltodextrin
- Maltose
- Mannitol
- Molasses
- Raw sugar
- Refiner's syrup
- Sorbitol
- Sorghum syrup
- Sucrose
- Turbinado
- Yellow sugar