To minimize sugar in your diet, here is a list of the name of sugar listed in the ingredient list on food labels: 

• Brown sugar
• raw sugar
• turbinado sugar
• fructose
• glucose
• honey
• maple syrup
• corn syrup
• corn syrup solids
• high-fructose corn syrup
• corn sweeteners
• dextros
• sucrose

 It is also most found in these foods: maple syrup, candies, pop, jams, ketchup, baked goods, juice, several packaged foods and many low-fat products for added taste.  Refined flour, chips, pretzels, muffins, white rice and pasta also end up as sugar in our body. Although sugars are safest in their natural, unprocessed forms such as maple syrup, honey or sugar in the raw – all forms of sugar possess similar health risks. 

Can’t avoid them totally? Then try avoiding products that :

• have these ingredients listed within the first 5 ingredients, or
• have two or more of these ingredients

 

Don’t Avoid Them Entirely

• save sweets for special occasions rather than include them in your daily diet
• have sweets made from fruit-juice concentrates and fruit sweeteners (found in most grocery stores) on occasion.

 For more information about the effects of sugar in the body, click here.

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