Other Names for Sugar

Postby marie » Wed Apr 14, 2010 6:01 am

If you are looking for the word "sugar" on the nutrition label of foods you buy, it may be listed as another name. In one form or another, sugar is added to more of the foods you buy than you can imagine!!

Some other names for sugar...
Barbados sugar
Barley malt
Beet sugar
Brown sugar
Buttered syrup
Cane-juice crystals
Cane sugar
Caramel
Carob syrup
Castor sugar
Confectioner's sugar
Corn Sweetener
Corn syrup
Corn syrup solids
Date sugar
Demerara sugar
Dextrin
Dextran
Dextrose
Diatase
Diastatic malt
Ethyl maltol
Fructose
Fruit juice
Fruit juice concentrate
Galactose
Glucose
Glucose solids
Golden sugar
Golden syrup
Granulated sugar
Grape sugar
High fructose corn syrup
Honey
Icing sugar
Invert corn syrup
Invert sugar
Lactose
Malt syrup
Maltodextrin
Maltose
Mannitol
Maple syrup
Molasses
Muscovado sugar
Panocha
Powdered sugar
Raw sugar
Refiner's syrup
Rice Syrup
Sorbitol
Sorghum syrup
Sucrose
Syrup
Treacle
Turbinado sugar
Yellow sugar
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Postby Bigwebmaster » Wed Apr 14, 2010 4:12 pm

I wonder why they have so many names? Are they trying to confuse consumers or trick them into thinking their product has little or no sugar?
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Postby stela » Fri Apr 23, 2010 9:37 am

soucres of sugar.;)
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