25 Names for the Sugar That's Hiding in Your Food

You pick up a food item at the store, examine the ingredients for "Sugar" and don't see it. So it must be sugar-free, right?

Wrong.

It’s usually there. It's just hiding in plain sight.

Here are 25 other common names for sugar:

  • Agave

  • Barley malt

  • Beet sugar

  • Brown sugar

  • Cane sugar

  • Cane juice

  • Caramel

  • Coconut sugar

  • Corn Syrup

  • Dextrin

  • Dextrose

  • Evaporated cane juice

  • Fructose

  • Glucose

  • Honey

  • Lactose

  • Maltodextrin

  • Maltose

  • Mollasses

  • Palm sugar

  • Rice sugar

  • Saccharose

  • Sucrose

  • Turbinado

  • Xylose