The many names of sugar

Brown Sugar- sugar crystals with molasses syrup, flavor and coloring

Confectioner’s Sugar or Powdered Sugar - finely ground sucrose crystals mixed with cornstarch

Corn Syrup - fructose and dextrose in various amount

Dextrose or Glucose - know as ‘corn sugar’  - sold blended with regular sugar

High-Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) - made from cornstarch - amounts of fructose vary by manufacturer.  An enzyme-linked process increases the fructose content, thus making it sweeter than regular corn syrup.

Honey - contains fructose, glucose, maltose and sucrose

Invert Sugar - used in candy making as it prevents crystallization

Lactose or Milk Sugar - made from whey and skim milk and it occurs in the milk of mammals

Levulose - a commercial sugar much sweeter than sucrose

Fructose - a sugar naturally occurring in fruit

Sorbitol, Mannitol, Malitol and Xylitol - are sugar alcohols that occur naturally in fruits and are produced commercially from such sources as dextrose.  Xylitol is sugar alcohol make from a part of birch trees and has a sweetness equal to sucrose.  Sorbitol, mannitol and malitol are about half as sweet as sucrose.

Sucrose or Table Sugar - comes from sugar cane or sugar beets.  It consists of two simple sugars - glucose and fructose.  It is about 99.9% pure and is sold in either granulated or powdered form

Raw Sugar - coarse crystals formed from sugar cane juice

Turbinado Sugar - raw sugar that goes thru a refining process

Adapted from 2014, 2016 Integrated Nutrition, Inc. Reused with permission