SWEET & SOUR
by MMA MOM Sheena Bidwell
Give Me Some Sugar!
Sugar is in e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g! From baby formula to spaghetti sauce, sugar has become the main ingredient in our lives. We are addicted to it, ADDICTED. Although all sugar is not created equal (apple vs. high fructose corn syrup) It’s all still sugar, I’ll get into graphic details on this later, but for now…. Think of your worst hangover…..it’s got nothing on sugar withdrawals. Think this is B.S.? Okay, I challenge you to go sugar free, even for 24 hours and lets see how happy you are then Sunshine.
HIDDEN NAMES FOR SUGAR
Print out this list and walk around your house (while leaving no stone unturned) to get an idea of just how much sugar you are constantly, inadvertently consuming. That sweet may just turn sour.
Sippin’ On Some SYRUP (liquid sugar)
Brown Rice Syrup
Buttered Syrup
Carob Syrup
Corn Syrup (and Corn Syrup Solids)
Golden Syrup
High Fructose Corn Syrup
High Maltose Corn Syrup
Malt Syrup
Maple Syrup
Refiner’s Syrup
Rice Syrup
Sorghum Syrup
Ohh La La SUGAR…. (fancy names for sugar)
Beet Sugar
Brown Sugar
Cane Crystals
Cane Sugar
Castor Sugar
Confectioner’s sugar
Date Sugar
Demerara sugar
Golden Sugar
Granulated Sugar
Grape Sugar
Icing Sugar
Invert Sugar
Muscovado Sugar
Raw Sugar aka Turbinado Sugar
Yellow Sugar
NINJA Sugar (sneaky names for sugar)
Barley malt
Cane juice crystals
Caramel
Corn Sweetner
Dehydrated Cane Juice
Dextrin
Diastatic malt
Diatase
Ethyl maltol
Fruit juice
Fruit juice concentrate
Honey
Maltodextrin
Mannitol
Molasses
Panocha
Sorbitol
Treacle
Xylitol
Crystalline fructose
Dextrose
Fructose
Galatose
Glucose (and Glucose Solids)
Lactose
Levulose
Maltose
Sucrose
Xylose
*Sucralose (or as most of us know it as SPLENDA) is NOT on the list. It’s NOT sugar! You heard me. It’s chlorinated artificial sweetener. Just like it’s nasty friends aspartame and Saccharose or Saccharin. Bluh.
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