Refined sugar can go by many names on ingredient labels and food companies will often use more than one type of refined sugar to disguise the fact that—in aggregate—sugar is actually the largest single ingredient in a given food item.
Here are some of the most common you’ll see:
barley malt
beet sugar
brown sugar
buttered syrup
cane juice crystals
cane juice solids
cane juice
cane sugar
caramel syrup
carob syrup
concentrated fruit juice
corn syrup
corn syrup solids
date sugar
dehydrated cane juice
dehydrated fruit juice
dextran
dextrin
dextrose
diatase
diatase malt
disaccharides
ethyl maltol
fructose
fruit juice crystals
fruit puree
galactose
glucose
glucose
fructose
glucose solids
golden syrup
high-fructose corn syrup
honey
invert sugar
lactose
malt
malt extract
malt syrup
maltodextrin
maltose
maple syrup
molasses
polysaccharides
raw sugar
refiner’s syrup
rice extract
rice syrup
sorghum syrup
sucanat
sucrose
sugar
sugar cane
tapioca syrup
turbinado
yellow sugar
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