Names of sugars seen on nutrition labels:
This page lists common of names of sugars and some info on what type of sugar makes it up.
Name | Fructose | Glucose | Lactose | Maltose | Sucrose | |||||||
Agave nectar | Species dependent tequilana is mostly fructose less glucose and some sucrose, other types are all sucrose | |||||||||||
Agave syrup | Species dependent tequilana is mostly fructose less glucose and some sucrose, other types are all sucrose | |||||||||||
Barley malt syrup | Around 75% maltose!! | |||||||||||
Beet sugar | Sucrose!! | |||||||||||
Blackstrap molasses | Sucrose!! | |||||||||||
Brown rice syrup | Aound 50%/50% maltotriose maltose and tiny bit of glucose | |||||||||||
Brown sugar | Sucrose!! | |||||||||||
Cane juice | Sucrose!! | |||||||||||
Cane sugar | Sucrose!! | |||||||||||
Caramel | Sucrose!! | |||||||||||
Carob syrup | 55-75% sucrose | |||||||||||
Coconut blossom nectar | Mostly sucrose | |||||||||||
Coconut sugar | 60-70% Sucrose | |||||||||||
Concentrated apple juice | Sucrose!! | |||||||||||
Corn sugar | probably high in sucrose | |||||||||||
Corn sweetener | probably high in sucrose | |||||||||||
Corn syrup | mostly glucose and fructose | |||||||||||
Crystallised fructose | ||||||||||||
Dark muscovado sugar | Sucrose!! | |||||||||||
Date sugar | Dates are mostly glucose and fructose (~50%/~50%) | |||||||||||
Date syrup | Dates are mostly glucose and fructose (~50%/~50%) | |||||||||||
Dextrose | Another name for glucose - SID safe | |||||||||||
Evaporated/Dehydrated cane juice | Sucrose!!!! | |||||||||||
Fructose | ||||||||||||
Fruit juice concentrate | Avoid - could be literally any fruit, unless you know the exact concentrated fruit doesn't have sucrose or maltose | |||||||||||
Glucose fructose syrup | ||||||||||||
Glucose syrup | SID Safe | |||||||||||
Glucose | SID Safe | |||||||||||
Golden caster sugar | Almost completely Sucrose | |||||||||||
Golden syrup | Sucrose!! | |||||||||||
Grape sugar | mostly glucose and fructose in grapes | |||||||||||
High-fructose corn syrup | fructose and glucose | |||||||||||
Honey | Mostly fructose and glucose, honeycomb has maltose though. be careful it is ACTUALLY honey (lots of food tampering in honey!!) | |||||||||||
Invert sugar | a mixture of glucose and fructose | |||||||||||
Invert syrup | a mixture of glucose and fructose | |||||||||||
Isoglucose | ||||||||||||
Jaggery | A type of cane sugar, mostly sucrose | |||||||||||
Lactose | ||||||||||||
Malt sugar | About 60% sucrose | |||||||||||
Malt syrup | About 60% sucrose | |||||||||||
Maltose | AVOID!! | |||||||||||
Maple sugar | Sucrose!! | |||||||||||
Maple syrup | About 55% Sucrose | |||||||||||
Molasses | About 50% Sucrose | |||||||||||
Nectars | Could be anything AVOID! | |||||||||||
Organic sugar | Sucrose | |||||||||||
Palm sugar | Sucrose | |||||||||||
Raw sugar | Sucrose | |||||||||||
Sorghum syrup | Sucrose (Aka Golden Syrup) | |||||||||||
Sucrose | AVOID!!! | |||||||||||
Sugar beet syrup | Sucrose | |||||||||||
Sugar | AVOID!!! | |||||||||||
Treacle | About 50% Sucrose | |||||||||||
Trehalose | aka mycose, tremalose. Mushroom sugar (made of 2 glucose units) | |||||||||||
Turbinado | Sucrose |
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