"Is THAT sugar?"

OK - everyone knows by now that sugar is the "big white enemy", but did you know that sugar goes by MANY other names?? Take a look...

(Some of them were obvious, but others, not so much! I've tried to put at least four of them into memory so I'll know it when I read my food labels!)

The Many Names for Sugar & Artificial Sweeteners:

• Agave

• Barley Malt

• Beet sugar

• Blackstrap molasses

• Brown sugar

• Cane sugar

• Cane juice crystals

• Caramel

• Carob syrup

• Castor sugar

• Corn sweeteners

• Corn Syrup

• Confectioner's sugar

• Crystalline fructose

• Date sugar

• Demerara sugar

• Dextrin

• Dextrose

• Diastatic malt

• Diatase

• D-mannose

• Evaporated cane juice

• Fructose

• Fruit juice concentrate

• Galactose

• Glucose

• High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS)

• Honey

• Invert sugar

• Lactose

• Malt syrup

• Maltodextrin

• Maltose

• Maple syrup

• Molasses

• Raw sugar

• Rice syrup

• Sucrose

• Syrup

• Table sugar

• Treacle

• Turbinado sugar

Artificial Sweeteners: (these are REALLY bad for you!)

• Acesulfame-K

• Aspartame

• Cyclamates

• Neotame

• Saccharin

• Splenda

• Sucralose

Now we can understand how the numbers are so high on how much sugar Americans consume ~ a lot of the time we don't even know it! Beware! And read your labels!