The Names of Sugar

So many of us think if a label doesn't say "sugar" there must not be any in the food. Did you know sugar has many names and it can hide anywhere? As we work out and make changes in our lives, we realize our bodies just can't take sugar anymore like it used to. Things we eat all of a sudden make us sick or we feel sluggish. We look back at the label, read through it, and ask how can that be? It doesn't say "sugar". As sugar comes in all different forms it can be labeled in many ways. After doing some research we found several names in which sugar can and is listed on your products.

Below are sugars which hide out in our foods. Be watchful next time you put something in your cart.

In alphabetical order: Barley Malt, Beet Sugar, Brown Sugar, Buttered Syrup, Cane Juice Carmel, Carob Syrup, Castor Sugar, Corn Syrup, Date Sugar, Dextran, Dextrose, Diatase, Diastic Malt, Ethyl Maltol, Fructose, Fruit Juice and Concentrate, Glucose and solids, Golden Sugar and syrup, Grape Sugar, High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS), Invert Sugar, Lactose, Malt Syrup, Maltodextrin, Maltose, Mannitol, Molasses, Raw Sugar, Refiner's Syrup, Sorbitol, Sorghum Syrup , Sucrose, good 'ol Sugar, Turbinado Sugar, and Yellow Sugar.

Are you shocked? I know that list is hard to swallow, seriously. What are you going to do? Print this out and carry it with you every time you go to the store? You could or simply try and eat as organic as you can. Do we have to be so hard on ourselves we can't have ANY sugar. No. But being aware of what you are eating is half the battle.

I highly recommend honey for your source of sugar in coffee, recipes, toast or cereal. It's natural. Try and buy it from a local farmer as bees pollinate with the same pollens you breath everyday. Helping to fight off allergies and asthma. Funny how this makes perfect sense.