Sickly sweet: 10 sneaky names for sugar | Haylie Pomroy

Sickly sweet: 10 sneaky names for sugar

Posted on October 25, 2013

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If you’re on the Fast Metabolism Diet, you know to avoid sugar. But manufacturers have all sorts of ways to avoid slapping “sugar” on the label. Don’t be fooled!
1. Evaporated cane juice. Take the juice from a sugar cane plant, then spin it around to separate the molasses from the sucrose, and what do you get? Sugar. But some manufacturers are calling it “evaporated cane juice” to avoid labeling their products as containing sugar. Sneaky indeed.
2. Agave nectar. “Nectar” sounds healthy, right? Well, agave nectar is made from a different plant, but it’s still sugar. In fact, it might be even worse than sugar, since it contains a higher percentage of fructose (as in high-fructose corn syrup).
3. Fruit juice concentrate. What are you left with if you remove all of the fiber and water from fruit? You guessed it.
4. High fructose corn syrup. You probably already know about this one.

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