Protein & Nutrition Blog – Marmels

Bar chart of added sugar in grams per day: average U.S. adult 71 g, FDA Daily Value 50 g, heart association ceiling 36 g for men and 25 g for women

Protein & Nutrition Blog – Marmels

Other Names for Sugar on Food Labels: How to Spot Them

by Mo Mandegar, PhD on Aug 11 2026
Oats first, then cane sugar, brown rice syrup, honey, and apple juice concentrate scattered through the next ten positions. No single sweetener sits near the top, but together they may outweigh everything else in the bar. Sugar goes by more than 60 names on ingredient labels, and nearly all of them fall into five recognizable families. Here is how to read them, and what the Added Sugars line does and does not catch.