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Understanding Ingredient Names

When there can be scores of names for humble sugar, little wonder things are a bit confusing for the poor consumer! Here is a quick low-down on fats, sugars and salts.

(Don't forget salt! Quite often we focus on sugar and fat to the exclusion of other considerations).

Butter

Vegetable oil/fat
Animal fat/oil
Shortening/margarine
Copha
Lard
Tallow
Coconut oil
Palm oil
Butter fat
Milk solids
Monoglycerides
Diglycerides
Chocolate
Chocolate chips
"Creamed", "toasted" may indicate added fat. Nuts can add a high fat content to foods.

Sugar

Sucrose
Maltose
Lactose
Dextrose
Fructose
Glucose
Mannitol
Sorbitol
Xylitol
Glucose syrup
Corn syrup
Golden syrup
Disaccharides
Monosaccharides

Salt

Sodium
Na
Monosodium glutamate
MSG
Sodium bicarbonate
Sodium lactate
Sodium ascorbate
Sodium metabisulphite
Sodium nitrate
Sodium citrate
Sodium phosphate
Meat/yeast extracts
Hydrolysed

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