5-Check ingredient lists
When shopping, always check the ingredient list and the nutritional values if you are unsure whether and how much sugar a product contains. By the way, sugar in disguise is also hidden behind these terms:
- Sucrose
- Dextrose
- Raffinose
- Glucose
- Fructose syrup or fructose-glucose syrup, glucose syrup, glucose-fructose syrup, or starch syrup
- Caramel syrup
- Lactose
- Maltose or malt extract
- Maltodextrin, dextrin, or wheat dextrin
- Sweet whey powder
- Barley malt/barley malt extract
