How to Spot Hidden Sugar in Any Food (Including 50 Other Names for the White Stuff!)

Can you believe there are 50 different names for sugar?

No wonder it’s tough to look at ingredient lists and really know what you’re getting!

Even supposed “health foods” often contain hidden sugars disguised under “natural” or fancy names that almost sound good for you. 

But make no mistake – they are far from good for you! Anything with sugar spikes your blood sugar levels and works like glue for your digestive tract, liver, and brain.

And the scary part is that more than 80% of the packaged foods you buy in the grocery stores come with hidden sugars!

That’s a lot to look out for with many confusing names, which is why it’s important that you check labels carefully, especially on foods that are likely suspects including:

• Bread
• Breakfast cereals
• Cookies
• Snack foods and other processed foods
• Soda and other carbonated beverages
• Chewing gum
• Chewable vitamins
• Desserts and dessert mixes
• Diet foods
• Frozen foods
• Protein bars and breakfast bars
• Juices
• Jam
• Yogurt
• Tomato sauce 

Among those foods, what many people don’t realize is that the same ingredient list can have 3 or 4 different types of sugar! 

So keep this list at the ready next time you’re at the grocery store wondering what’s really inside the foods you buy.

The 50 Different Names for Sugar:

1. Brown sugar
2. Cane juice
3. Cane sugar (or cane sugar extract)
4. Caramel
5. Carob syrup
6. Caster sugar
7. Confectioner’s sugar
8. Dehydrated cane juice
9. Demerara
10. Dextran
11. Dextrose
12. Ethyl maltol
13. Fructose (the worst sugar of them all)
14. Galactose
15. Golden syrup
16. Glucose
17. Glucose solids
18. Gluco-malt
19. Invert sugar
20. Lactose
21. Malt
22. Malt syrup
23. Maltodextrin
24. Maltose
25. Muscovado sugar
26. Molasses
27. Panela
28. Rapadura
29. Raw sugar
30. Refiners syrup
31. Sorghum syrup
32. Sucrose
33. Treacle
34. Turbinado sugar

Derived from other natural sources (but still sugar!):

35. Agave nectar
36. Barley malt syrup
37. Beet sugar
38. Brown rice syrup
39. Coconut sugar
40. Corn sugar
41. Corn syrup
42. Corn syrup solids
43. Date sugar
44. Fruit juice concentrate
45. Fruit sugar
46. High fructose corn syrup
47. Honey (including raw honey)
48. Karo
49. Maple syrup
50. Palm sugar  

So what’s a better alternative to all of those nasty sugars? Look for organic liquid stevia or lo han berry (AKA monkfruit) instead of all of these ingredients. They won’t spike your blood sugar, won’t mess with your digestion, and – best of all – won’t fill you with toxic artificial sweeteners.

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