Reading food labels can be quite a challenge sometimes. The different names for ingredients are varied and sometimes unrecognisable. This blog article is one of a series which you can use to help identify ingredients of interest – this week we’ll look at sugars.
If an something appears in the first three items on the ingredient list it generally means that the product contains quite a lot of it. Food manufacturers can hide ingredients, though, by adding multiple types of the same ingredient, all with different names.
Someone asked me recently for a list to help them identify sugars in processed foods, so here it is.
Sugar, sugar, sugar
- Agave nectar
- Agave syrup
- Barbados sugar
- Barley malt extract
- Barley malt syrup
- Beet sugar
- Blackstrap molasses
- Brown rice syrup
- 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 syrup
- Corn syrup solids
- Crystalline fructose
- Date sugar
- Demerara sugar
- Dextrin
- Dextrose
- Diastatic malt
- D-ribose
- Ethyl maltol
- Evaporated cane juice
- Florida crystals
- Fructose
- Fruit juice
- Fruit juice concentrate
- Galactose
- Glucose
- Glucose solids
- Golden sugar
- Golden syrup
- Grape sugar
- High fructose corn syrup (HFCS)
- Honey
- Icing sugar
- Invert sugar
- Lactose
- Malt syrup
- Maltodextrin
- Maltose
- Maple syrup
- Molasses
- Muscovado sugar
- Panela sugar
- Panocha
- Raw sugar
- Refiner’s syrup
- Rice syrup
- Sorghum syrup
- Sucanat
- Sucrose
- Sugar (granulated)
- Sweet sorghum
- Syrup
- Treacle
- Treacle sugar
- Turbinado sugar
- Yellow sugar
Remember, too much sugar isn’t good for us. For more info on added or extrinsic sugars, have a look here.
See you next week, Sweeties!
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