Protein & Nutrition Blog – Marmels
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.
