Types Of Sugar

These sugars are virtually all empty calories because few, if any, additional nutrients are provided other and just calories.

The following are some types of sugars and sweeteners that may be added to foods:

	Sucrose (white, refined table sugar) from sugar cane or sugar beet
	Confectioner's sugar (powdered sugar)
	Brown sugar is sucrose crystals colored with molasses syrup
	Dextrose knows as glucose or corn sugar, made from cornstarch
	Corn sweetener made from the breakdown of cornstarch
	Corn syrup can by abbreviated on a label as HFCS, high fructose corn syrup
	Fructose or levulose is used as a sucrose substitute. Fructose does not require insulin to get into the liver and body cells
	Fruit juice concentrate is often made from apple juice
	Honey can trigger allergic reactions in some individuals
	Invert sugar or total invert sugar is a mixture of glucose and fructose. It is sweeter than sucrose and is used in baked goods to prevent food shrinkage
	Maple syrup from the sap of a sugar maple tree
	Molasses is separated from raw sugar during processing. Darker molasses and blackstrap molasses is superior in providing small amounts of some vitamins and minerals
	Raw sugar contains many impurities
	Turbinado is partially refined sugar and often called "raw sugar"
	Sugar alcohols are metabolized more slowly than sugar yet are eventually used by the body as sugar: sorbitol, mannitol and xylitol. These are used in chewing gum because they are not converted into sugar in the mouth
	Nonnutritive sweeteners:

Saccharin is 500x sweeter than sugar
Aspartame is 180 times sweeter than sucrose
Cyclamates are 50 times sweeter than sucrose, use is banned in U.S.

NAMES FOR ADDED SUGARS THAT APPEAR ON FOOD LABELS A food is likely to be high in sugars if one of these names appears first or second in the ingredient list, or if several names are listed.
Brown sugar Corn sweetener Corn syrup Dextrose Fructose Fruit juice concentrate Glucose High-fructose corn syrup Honey	Invert sugar Lactose Malt syrup Maltose Molasses Raw sugar Sucrose Syrup Table sugar

Updates

FDA will allow dental health claim for sucralose

By Craig Palmer cited ADA Today

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it will allow a dental health claim for a sweetener used in gum, soft drinks and other food products. and is confined its review to dental caries, the single most common chronic disease of childhood and a disease for which the general U.S. population is at risk.

The FDA proposed a regulatory amendment adding sucralose to a list of sweeteners authorized to make health claims and offered as an illustrative "model health claim" for product labeling: "Frequent eating of foods high in sugars and starches as between-meal snacks can promote tooth decay. Sucralose, the sweetening ingredient used to sweeten this food, unlike sugars, does not promote tooth decay."

Sucralose is a nonnutritive sweetener used as a sugar substitute in conventional foods and dietary supplements. Not all sucralose formulations are eligible for a dental caries health claim.

"We conclude that there is significant scientific agreement that sucralose does not promote dental caries," the FDA said. "Consumption of products containing sucralose, such as gum and soft drinks, can potentially reduce the risk of dental caries."

The notice was posted online in the Federal Register, official record of government regulatory activity.

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NAMES FOR ADDED SUGARS THAT APPEAR ON FOOD LABELS