BOX 12

ON A FOOD LABEL, SUGARS INCLUDE

• brown sugar
• corn sweetener
• corn syrup
• fructose
• fruit juice concentrate
• glucose (dextrose)
• high-fructose corn syrup
• honey
• invert sugar
• lactose
• maltose
• molasses
• raw sugar
• [table] sugar (sucrose)
• syrup

A food is likely to be high in sugars if one of the above terms appears first or second in the ingredients list, or if several of them are listed.

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