Learn to recognize the 56 different names for sugar
Unfortunately, sugar is not always conveniently labeled as “sugar” in the ingredients list. The food industry has discovered new ways to hide the amount of added sugar in their products by disguising them as different names that don’t seem so bad. Brown rice is healthy so that means brown rice syrup is too, right?
Dr. Lustig’s book Sugar Has 56 Names: A Shopper’s Guide is enlightening for those who may not realize the extent that sugar is added to our food products.
“Sugar has 56 Names” only scratched the surface of all the other names which have been reported to me. By now I am aware of over 300 names. Please help me and an innovative start up called “perfact” collect basic data on added sugars so we can publish an updated “sugar matrix” in a collaborative open-knowledge format. If your contribution is helpful, you will be listed as a contributor.
Get involved with the Sugar Matrix Project (click here)
FIFTY-SIX NAMES FOR SUGAR:
- Agave nectar*
- Barbados sugar*
- Barley malt
- Beet sugar*
- Blackstrap molasses*
- Brown rice syrup*
- Brown sugar*
- Buttered syrup*
- Cane juice crystals*
- Cane sugar*
- Caramel*
- Carob syrup*
- Castor sugar*
- Confectioner’s sugar*
- Corn syrup
- Corn syrup solids
- Crystalline fructose*
- Date sugar*
- Demerara sugar*
- Dextran
- Dextrose
- Diastatic malt
- Diatase
- 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*
- Honey*
- Icing sugar*
- Invert sugar*
- Lactose
- Malt syrup
- Maltose
- Maple syrup*
- Molasses*
- Muscovado sugar*
- Organic raw sugar*
- Panocha*
- Raw sugar*
- Refiner’s syrup*
- Rice syrup
- Sorghum syrup*
- Sucrose*
- Sugar*
- Treacle*
- Turbinado sugar*
- Yellow sugar*
*Contains fructose
