Ingredients to Avoid Sugar (and its many pseudonyms) Sounds like sugar— Sounds like syrup— Sounds Natural— Barbados sugar Brown rice syrup Agave nectar Beet sugar Buttered syrup Blackstrap molasses Brown sugar Carob syrup Coconut nectar Cane sugar Corn syrup Dates Castor sugar Corn syrup solids Dried Fruit Coconut sugar Golden syrup Fruit juice Coconut palm sugar High fructose corn syrup Fruit juice concentrate Confectioner’s sugar High maltose corn syrup Honey Corn Sugar Malt syrup Maple syrup Date sugar Refiner’s syrup Molasses Demerara sugar Rice syrup Golden sugar Sorghum syrup Sounds like a chemical— Granulated sugar Dextran Grape sugar Sounds cryptic— Dextrose Icing sugar Barley malt Diatase Invert sugar Cane juice Disaccharides Muscovado sugar Cane juice crystals Ethyl maltol Palm Sugar Caramel Fructooligosaccharides Powdered sugar Dehydrated cane juice Fructose Raw sugar Evaporated cane juice Galactose Turbinado sugar Diastatic malt Glucitol Yellow sugar Florida crystals Glucose HFCS Glucose solids Malt Isoglucose Muscovado Lactose Panocha Levulose Rapadura Maltodextrin Sucanat Maltose Treacle Saccharose Starch (and its many pseudonyms) Grains & grain-like seeds— Other names for wheat— Flours, starches, & thickeners— Amaranth Bulgar Arrowroot Barley Bran Cornmeal Buckwheat Burghul Cornstarch Corn Couscous Cassava Oats Durum Chickpea flour or Gram Millet Einkorn Cottonseed Rice Emmer Dal Rye Farina Fava bean Quinoa Farro Inulin Sorghum Flour Lentil Teff Graham flour Manioc Wheat Kamut Modified starch Wild Rice Orzo Powdered cellulose Semolina Potato Spelt Sago Triticale Taro Wheat berries Soy White flour Tapioca Plantain or Banana Mesquite Starchy vegetables Sweet potatoes & yams Vegetable starch DietDoctor.com Ingredients to Avoid Trans fats and processed vegetable oils Trans Fats Processed Vegetable Oils Diglycerides Canola Hydrogenated anything Corn Interesterified oils Cottonseed Margarine Grapeseed Monoglycerides Rice Bran Partially hydrogenated anything Safflower Shortening Vegetable shortening (like Crisco) Sugar replacements Sugar alcohols— Artificial sweetners— Natural extracts— Erythritol Acesulfame K Stevia Glycerol Alitame (Aclame) Monk Fruit (Luo Han Gul)Barley Isomalt Aspartame (NutraSweet) Lactitol Cyclamate (Sucaryl) Maltitol Neotame Mannitol Saccharin (Sweet ‘N Low) Sorbitol Sucralose (Splenda) Xylitol DietDoctor.com.