Wendy Russo, Certified Personal Trainer, Certified Nutrition Coach

How To Spot Sugar 

The following words all mean “added sugar” Hint: the words “syrup”,” sweetener” ,and anything ending in“ose”can usually be assumed to be “sugar”. If the label says “no added sugars”, it should not contain any of the following:

• Corn Sweetener

• Corn syrup, or corn syrup solids

• Dehydrated Cane Juice

• Dextrin

• Dextrose

• Fructose

• Fruit Juice Concentrate

• Glucose

• High Fructose Corn Syrup

• Honey

• Invert Sugar

• Lactose

• Maltodextrin

• Malt syrup

• Maltose

• Maple syrup

• Molasses

• Raw sugar

• Rice Syrup

• Saccharose

• Sorghum or sorghum syrup

• Sucrose

• Syrup

• Treacle

• Turbinado Sugar

• Xylose