FMCGs use different names for sugar: We all know that it is important to eat nutritious food to stay healthy and fit, but due to lack of time in today's fast and running era, we have become accustomed to eating packaged food, but how harmful it is. We don't know what ingredients are used in it. In this too, the demand for products sold in the name of hygienic-mineral rich healthy food has increased in the market today. But most of these FMCG companies have been found to be secretly serving unhealthy ingredients to consumers by giving code names to food products.
Similarly, sugar is being added under different names. Therefore, the consumer does not know how much sugar he is consuming through this packaged food. Consumers are overwhelmed by the fact that ingredients available in food packets contain other names instead of sugar.
Know the different names of sugar like this
Natural sugars are essential for health. But excess sugar has adverse effects on health. There are over 60 different names for added sugar. Food companies sell products using it. These names are hard to remember, but the ingredients are sugar, ending in OSE, OL, SYRUP. Cold drinks, fruit juices, flavored yogurt, cereals, cookies, biscuits, cakes, candy and most processed foods contain added sugar. In addition to soups, breads, ketchups, and protein powders, many health drinks and protein bars also contain sugar under different names. Many research reports and doctors are warning that eating too much sugar causes obesity, diabetes, damage to the pancreas and stomach.
Sugar causes heart attack related problems
Heart attack related problems are also seen due to sugar. According to a report from Howard University, people who get 17 to 21 percent of their calories from sugar have a 38 percent increased risk of heart disease (heart attack). Therefore, eating more and more sugar in the long run also leads to heart related diseases.
category of sugar
1. Monosaccharides
*Sugar is made up of one molecule
– Glucose
– Fructose (sugar obtained from fruits)
– Galactose (milk sugar)
2. Disaccharide
two monosaccharides combined
– sucrose (glucose + fructose)
– Lactose (glucose + galactose)
– Maltose (glucose + glucose)
3. Polysaccharide
More than 10 monosaccharides are combined
– Glucose polymer/starch etc.
Is brown sugar good for health???
Many people believe that coconut sugar and palm sugar are healthier than refined sugar. The reason behind which may be its price. Since coconut and palm sugar are three to four times more expensive than normal, many people believe that more expensive is always better for health. Due to which they prefer to take different types of expensive processed sugar instead of sugar. But it is equally dangerous for health.
Different names of sugar are written in packaged foods.
| dehydrated sugarcane juice | rice syrup | sugarcane juice | cane sugar | caramel | barley malt |
| coconut sugar | coconut palm sugar | corn syrup | corn syrup solids | carob syrup | Castor sugar |
| date sugar | Golden syrup | golden sugar | granulated sugar | grape sugar | high fructose |
| Honey | breaking sugar | invert sugar | lactose | liquid glucose | Jaggery |
| barbados sugar | Beetroot | Brown sugar | brown rice syrup | buttery syrup | sugarcane juice |
| Refiner Syrup | free flowing brown sugar | fructose | fruit juice | fruit juice | focus |
| galactose | sugar | Tomalto | glucose solid | cane sugar caramel | confectioners sugar |
| demerara sugar | malt | maltodextrin | maltose | malt syrup | dextran |
| dextrose | diastatic malt | Maple syrup | diastage | Jaggery | ethyl maltol |
| sucrose | evaporated sugarcane juice | tapioca syrup | Castor sugar | raw sugar | turbinado sugar |
| yellow sugar | sugar | sucrose |
