Can We Really Trust that Nutritional Label? 69 Sugar Aliases Food Manufactures Use to Hide It From You

What: A list of 69 other names of sugar.

Why: So you can avoid sugar, and lose weight – even if it’s disguised in another name.

How: Used as a reference when you’re looking for sugar in the Ingredients List of Nutritional Labels. They’re listed in alphabetical order. The Duke University Medical Center’s Lifestyle Medicine Clinic says to avoid food items where sugar (or any form of starch) is listed in the first 5 ingredients.

A

Agave nectar

B

Barbados sugar
Barley malt
Beet sugar
Brown rice syrup
Brown sugar
Buttered syrup

C

Cane crystals
Cane juice
Cane sugar
Cane syrup
Caramel
Carob syrup
Castor sugar
Confectioner’s sugar
Corn sweetener
Corn syrup
Corn syrup solids
Crystalline fructose

D

Date sugar
Dehydrated cane juice
Demerara sugar
Dextran
Dextrose
Diastase
Diastatic malt

E

Ethyl maltol
Evaporated cane juice

F

Free flowing brown sugars
Fructose
Fruit juice
Fruit juice concentrate

G

Galactose
Glucose
Glucose solids
Golden sugar
Golden syrup
Granulated sugar
Grape sugar

H

High fructose corn syrup or HFCS
Honey
Hydrolyzed starch

I

Icing sugar
Invert sugar

J

K

L

Lactose

M

Malt
Maltodextrin
Maltose
Malt syrup
Maltotroise
Mannitol
Maple syrup
Molasses
Muscovado

N

O

P

Palm syrup
Panocha
Powdered sugar

Q

R

Raw sugar
Refiner’s syrup
Rice syrup

S

Sorbitol
Sorghum syrup
Starch
Sucrose
Syrup

T

Table sugar
Treacle
Turbinado sugar

U

V

W

X

Y

Yellow sugar

Z

*References: Duke University Medical Center Lifestyle Medicine Clinic, The Health Sciences Academy, The Obesity Code.

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