Read the Labels and Ingredients Lists!

.......but be aware that if you are reading a label, you are likely not eating "food". How many of the foods in the fruits and vegetables, dairy and meat sections of the grocery store have ingredients lists?

Contains:

• Broccoli

• Apple

• Grass-fed beef

• Milk from grass-fed cows

Companies try and "trick" their ingredient lists by splitting sugar into various categories to get them further down the list so that the consumers think that there is less of it in the food they are selling. 

Here are some of the other words found in the ingredient lists that are SUGAR:

• 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

• HFCS

• (High-Fructose Corn Syrup)

• 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

• Sugar (granulated)

• Sweet Sorghum

• Syrup

• Treacle

• Turbinado sugar

• Yellow sugar

See article in OrganicWellness discussing Ketchup: theorganicwellness.com