"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!