Labels keep coming up when it comes to nutrition talks I have with my clients. There are confusing, and they want to clear answers about them.
They are designed to be confusing and use words that you need a biochem degree to know.
If you want some one to tell you more about lable a nutrition-coaching is here to help you.
That doesn’t mean you can’t use these two straightforward tricks to make the right choice’s able your foods.
1. Unfortanelty there are OVER 60 different names for sugar that companies are allowed to use. So if you are reading a label and you see these names more than 3 or 4 times ideally, you should stay away.
Here’s the list
61 Names for Sugar
Agave nectar
Barbados sugar
Barley malt
Barley malt syrup
Beet sugar
Brown sugar
Buttered syrup
Cane juice
Cane juice crystals
Cane sugar
Caramel
Carob syrup
Castor sugar
Coconut palm sugar
Coconut sugar
Confectioner’s sugar
Corn sweetener
Corn syrup
Corn syrup solids
Date sugar
Dehydrated cane juice
Demerara sugar
Dextrin
Dextrose
Evaporated cane juice
Free-flowing brown sugars
Fructose
Fruit juice
Fruit juice concentrate
Glucose
Glucose solids
Golden sugar
Golden syrup
Grape sugar
HFCS (High-Fructose Corn Syrup)
Honey
Icing sugar
Invert sugar
Malt syrup
Maltodextrin
Maltol
Maltose
Mannose
Maple syrup
Molasses
Muscovado
Palm sugar
Panocha
Powdered sugar
Raw sugar
Refiner’s syrup
Rice syrup
Saccharose
Sorghum Syrup
Sucrose
Sugar (granulated)
Sweet Sorghum
Syrup
Treacle
Turbinado sugar
Yellow sugar
Syrup, Dextrose, are the most comm to be used, But’s as awareness about a name raises they switch it. Now if you see syrup anything its sugar. If you see these letters “Ose” in a word like sucrose or Maltose its probable sugar.
2.This one simple but eye-opening. Just try to eat more food without labels. Veggies and fruits don’t come with tags because your simple eating something that hasn’t been processed.
Next time you go to the grocery store use these two simple tricks, and you be in a better place. Less sugar and eating foods that haven’t been processed will be great for your health.
-Coach D.K.
