Lose Free » names for sugar http://losefree.com Free Weight Loss Meal Plans, Tools, and Diet Help Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:19:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Watch Where The Sugar is Hiding http://losefree.com/2008/07/watch-where-the-sugar-is-hiding/ http://losefree.com/2008/07/watch-where-the-sugar-is-hiding/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:43:50 +0000 losefree12 http://losefree.com/?p=42 Cutting out sugar from your diet may seem as simple as just switching from sugary foods like cakes and cookies to sugar free varieties, but there are also many places sugar may be hiding in other foods you might not expect.

Reading nutrition labels is very important – not just to learn the calorie or fat counts in the foods we eat, but the ingredients.

Sugar can be snuck into foods without us realizing it, as it goes by many different names. Here is a quick list of different names for sugar to look out for:

1. Barley Malt
2. Blackstrap molasses
3. Brown sugar
4. Cane sugar
5. Corn sweeteners
6. Corn Syrup
7. Confectioner’s sugar
8. Date sugar
9. Demerara Sugar
10. Dextrin
11. Dextrose
12. D-mannose
13. Evaporated cane juice
14. Free Flowing Brown Sugars
15. Fructose
16. Fruit juice concentrate
17. Galactose
18. Glucose
19. Granulated Sugar
20. High-fructose corn Syrup (HFCS)
21. Honey
22. Invert sugar
23. Lactose
24. Malt syrup
25. Maltodextrin
26. Maltose
27. Maple syrup
28. Molasses
29. Muscovado
30. Panocha
31. Powdered Sugar
32. Raw sugar
33. Rice Syrup
34. Sucrose
35. Syrup
36. Table sugar
37. Treacle
38. Turbinado sugar

By reading the ingredient list and nutrition labels you can be one step closer to avoiding sugar you don’t really need.

]]> http://losefree.com/2008/07/watch-where-the-sugar-is-hiding/feed/ 0