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