You may think you’re eating healthy, but it pays to scrutinize food labels. The amount of sugar being added to so-called “natural, healthy” foods may shock you.
Sugar has many different aliases. If a couple of the following ingredients are listed high on a food label, you can bet the food or beverage is high in added sugars. The following is only a partial list.
- Barley malt
- Brown sugar
- Cane juice crystals
- Caramel
- Carob syrup
- Corn sweetener
- Corn syrup
- Date sugar
- Dextrose
- Fructose
- Fruit juice concentrate
- Glucose
- High-fructose corn syrup
- Honey
- Invert sugar
- Lactose
- Malt syrup
- Maltodextrin
- Molasses
- Rice syrup
- Sorbitol
- Turbinado sugar
