Sugar by many other names

The following is an excerpt from my second book, Skin Care A to Z. It’s a list of known and not-so-known sugars. This list is used by permission from an excellent book on sugar and how to get it out of your diet, The Sugar Addict’s Total Recovery Program by Kathleen DesMaisons. She has also written another great book, Potatoes Not Prozac, which I also recommend. And now, the different names for the same thing—sugar:

amasake
apple sugar
barbados sugar
bark sugar (zylose)
barley malt
barley malt syrup
beet sugar
brown rice syrup
cane juice
cane sugar
cane syrup
carbitol
caramel coloring

caramel sugars
caramelized foods
concentrated fruit juice
corn sweetener
d-tagalose
date sugar
dextrin
dextrose
diglycerides
disaccharides
evaporated cane juice
Florida crystals
fructooligosaccharides (FOS)
fructose
fruit juice concentrate
galactose
glucitol
glucoamine
gluconolactone (may be found in tofu)
glucose
glucose polymers
glucose syrup
glycerides
glycerine
glycerol
glycol
high-fructose corn syrup
inversol
invert sugar
isomalt
karo syrups
lactose
levulose
“lite” sugar
“light” sugar
malt dextrin
malted barley
maltose
maltodextrins
maltodextrose
malts (any)
mannitol, xylitol, maltitol
mannose
microcrystalline cellulose
molasses
monoglycerides
monosaccharides
nectars
neotame
pentose
polydextrose
polyglycerides 

raisin juice
raisin syrup
ribose rice syrup
rice malt
rice sugar
rice sweeteners
rice syrup solids
saccharides (any)
sorbitol (aka hexitol)
sorghum
sucanat (evaporated cane juice)
sucanet
sucrose
sugar cane
trisaccharides
unrefined sugar
zylos

Malts, syrups, and most things ending is “ose” are going to be sugar—of some kind. And as you can see by the size of this list, there are numerous variations of what we think of as sugar. No matter what name it goes by, sugar causes skin problems in many people.

For more information, see:

• Sugar Addicted? Try a 3-day sugar fast
• Helpful hints to lessen sugar intake
• I’m sensitive to sugar—are you?