I decided to try to cut back on sugar. Significantly.
A friend of mine is doing a sugar-free dietary change, and she is inspecting lots of labels and making sure that no added sugar goes in her mouth. She's found a list of ingredients that are often listed that are synonymous with sugar:
Source: About Health website: If the label says “no added sugars”, it should not contain any of the following, although the food could contain naturally-occurring sugars (such as lactose in milk):
Agave Nectar
Barley Malt Syrup
Beet Sugar
Brown Rice Syrup
Brown Sugar
Cane Crystals (or, even better, "cane juice crystals")
Cane Sugar
Coconut Sugar, or Coconut Palm Sugar
Corn sweetener
Corn syrup, or corn syrup solids
Dehydrated Cane Juice
Dextrin
Dextrose
Evaporated Cane Juice
Fructose
Fruit juice concentrate
Glucose
High-fructose corn syrup
Honey
Invert sugar
Lactose
Maltodextrin
Malt syrup
Maltose
Maple syrup
Molasses
Palm Sugar
Raw sugar
Rice Syrup
Saccharose
Sorghum or sorghum syrup
Sucrose
Syrup
Treacle
Turbinado Sugar
Xylose
The easiest thing to do is to make meals from whole foods--use fewer pre-packaged and pre-mixed foods and buy all the stuff that can be found around the edges of the store--milk, butter, fruit, veggies, and meat. However, it's a daunting thought spending hundreds of hours in the kitchen making salsa, fresh bread, tortillas, soaking beans, mayonnaise, ketchup & other condiments, salad dressings, and much more. Therefore, it's good to have a list of brands that make condiments that have no sugar.
A few brands that are good include:
Amy's Kitchen
Full Circle (Black Beans)
Que Pasa tortilla chips
Pace Picante sauce
Dole packaged fruit (in 100% juice)
Fred Meyer has organic peanut butter with no sugar, but everyone carries Adams. I prefer the no-stir creamy variety, which I've been buying for years.
Better Oats Steel Cut Oat Revolution (oatmeal packets), or just a cylinder of Quaker quick oats
Saltine crackers
Lucerne cream cheese
I'll be checking labels and adding to this list as I go.
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