Rethink Your Drink

Other Names for Added Sugar

According to the Food and Drug Administration, added sugars include sugars that are added during the processing of foods (such as sucrose or dextrose), foods packaged as sweeteners (such as table sugar), sugars from syrups and honey, and sugars from concentrated fruit or vegetable juices. Added sugars do not include naturally occurring sugars that are found in milk, fruits, and vegetables.¹⁴

If these appear in the ingredients list of your favorite beverage, you are drinking a sugar-sweetened beverage.

• Cane juice
• Corn syrup
• Dextrose
• Fructose
• Fruit juice concentrates
• Fruit nectars (such as agave nectar)
• Glucose
• High fructose corn syrup
• Honey
• Malt syrup
• Maple syrup and syrup
• Molasses
• Raw sugar
• Sugar
• Sucrose
• Sugar cane