Different Names for SUGAR in the Ingredients List

So you are reading the ingredients lists of the different foods that you are eating. That is great! If you are thinking about and trying to cut the sugar from the ingredients, you just look for “sugar” as one of the ingredients, right? Not so fast! It might not be as apparent as you might think. Sugar can be in what you are eating, but the manufacturer can be using all sort of various versions of “sugar” and list them using the following substances:

• 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