Sugar, By Any Other Name...

Sugar, By Any Other Name...

Everyone knows the quote from Shakespeare; "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet ..."

Well, sugar by any other name is still sugar.

I've written, several times, about how the food companies go to great length to hide ingredients in their food labels while still conforming with legal requirements. But I'm not sure most people realize just how far they push the envelope.

So here is a list of 81 ingredients found on food labels that all mean basically the same thing- Sugar.

Highlighted names I thought were particularly inventive. Some I even gave a gold star (*)

Anhydrous dextrose

Agave

Agave syrup

Beet Sugar

Brown sugar

Barley Malt

Cane juice

Cane juice solids *

Cane juice crystals*

Cane Sugar

Cane syrup

Caramel

Carob syrup

Caster sugar

Coconut sugar

Confectioners sugar

Corn syrup

Corn syrup solids*

Crystalline fructose*

Date sugar

Demerara sugar

Dextran

Dextrose

Diatase*

Diastatic malt*

Dehydrated cane juice* (Love these next 4-Know what you get when evaporate cane juice? Sugar.)

Evaporated cane juice*

Evaporated cane syrup*

Evaporated sugar cane*

Fructose

Fructose crystals

Fruit juice crystals

Fruit juice concentrate

Glazing sugar

Glucose

Glucose solids

Glucose syrup

Golden sugar ( if it's "golden" syrup it must be ok)

Golden syrup

Granulated sugar

Grape sugar

High fructose corn syrup

Honey

Icing sugar

Invert sugar (WTH is inverted?)

Invert sugar

King's syrup* (This must be really special!)

Lactose

Maple syrup

Maple sugar

Maltose

Maltosedextrin

Malt sugar

Molasses

Muscovado

Nectar

Pancake syrup

Panocha

Powdered sugar

Raw sugar

Refiner's syrup

Sorghum

Sorghum syrup

Sucanat

Sucrose

Sugar

Superfine sugar

Table sugar

Treacle

Turbinado sugar

White sugar

Yellow sugar

Then we have the sugar alcohols:

Maltitol

Hydrogenated Starch Hydrolysate

Xylitol

Isomalt

Sorbitol

Lactitol

Mannitol

Erythritol

Confused yet?