A Handy Sugar List

When you're checking ingredients, it can hard to dig through the maze of different chemical names. To pinpoint the sugar, look for ingredients ending in -ose or -ol or containing the words juice, nectar, sugar, sweetener, or syrup.

This list gives you a whole bunch of different names for sugar, but new ones can come out daily!

Types of sugar:

• Agave nectar
• Anhydrose dextrose
• Barbados sugar
• Barley malt
• Beet sugar
• Brown sugar
• Butter syrup
• Cane juice
• Cane sugar
• Caramel
• Carob syrup
• Castor sugar
• Coconut sugar
• Corn sweetener
• Corn syrup
• Date sugar
• Dehydrated cae juice
• Demerara sugar
• Dextran
• Dextrin
• Dextrose
• Diastatic malt
• Ethyl Maltol
• Evaporated cane juice
• Florida crystals
• Fructose
• Fruit juice
• Galactose
• Glucose
• Golden sugar/ syrup
• High fructose corn syrup
• Honey
• Invert sugar
• Malt syrup
• Maltodextrin
• Malton
• Maltose
• Mannose
• Maple syrup
• Molasses
• Muscovado
• Palm sugar
• Panocha
• Powdered sugar
• Raw sugar
• Refiner's syrup
• Rice syrup
• Saccarose
• Sorghum 
• Sucanat
• Sucrose
• Granulated sugar
• Syrup
• Treacle
• Turbinado sugar

Sugar substitutes: 
Artificial sweeteners [AS] - synthetic sugar substitutes, often much sweeter than sugar
Sugar Alcohols [SA] - naturally occuring in fruits and vegetables, as or less sweet than sugar

• Alitame [AS]
• Aspartame (NutraSweet) [AS]
• Acesulfame potassium (Sweet One) [AS]
• Cyclamates [AS}
• D-tagatose [SA]
• Erythritol [SA]
• Glycerol [SA]
• Hydrogenated starch hydroslsates [SA]
• Isomalt [SA]
• Lacititol [SA]
• Maltitol [SA]
• Mannnitol [SA]
• Neohesperdine [AS]
• Neotame [AS]
• Polydextrose [SA]
• Saccharin (Sweet 'N' Low) [AS]
• Sorbitol [SA]
• Stevia 
• Sucralose (Splenda) [AS]
• Thaumatin [AS]
• Xylitol [SA]