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    30 Code Words For Sugar

    It's yesterday's news that you can eat healthier by avoiding foods full of unnecessary sugars, and that sugars appear on labels under different names, but you might be surprised to see just how many different guises sugar and sugar-related substances can assume.

    Inside, 30 of them.

    Brown-rice syrup
    Corn sweetener
    Corn syrup, or corn syrup solids
    Cane Juice
    Dehydrated cane juice
    Dextrin
    Dextrose
    Fructose
    Fruit juice concentrate
    Glucose
    High-fructose corn syrup
    Honey
    Invert sugar
    Lactose
    Maltodextrin
    Malt syrup
    Maltose
    Mannitol
    Maple syrup
    Molasses
    Raw sugar
    Rice Syrup
    Saccharose
    Sorbitol
    Sorghum or sorghum syrup
    Sucrose
    Syrup
    Treacle
    Turbinado Sugar
    Xylose

    Things ending in "ose" or "ol" are probably sugars.

    Not all sugars are created equal, some of these are sugar alcohols which are not absorbed as fully by the body as regular sugar. It all depends on how an item falls on the glycemic index.

    Sugar's Many Disguises [About.com]
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