Hiding Sugar

I have A LOT of time on my hands at work.. so that just gives me more time to look up dieting stuff. I found an article about Sugar that I found pretty interesting. Sugar is hiding in everything! In the article they listed some of the secret names that food companies use to hide the sugar in their food. 

• Sucrose
• Evaporated Cane Juice
• Agave Nectar
• Fruit Juice Concentrate
• 100% Fruit Juice
• High Fructose Corn Syrup
• The -oses (sucrose, glucose, and fructose, but did you know galactose, maltose, dextrose, and lactose)
• Blackstrap Molasses
• Organic Brown Rice Syrup
• And Many more... (Barley malt, golden syrup, diastatic malt, diastase, treacle, panocha, sorghum syrup)

On the last page they tell you this... 

"... the key to monitoring your sugar is determining just how much each serving contains. How? Check the nutrition label for total grams of sugar, and divide that by four (each teaspoon of sugar is equal to 4 grams.) That’s how many teaspoons of sugar are really in your cookie, your ketchup, and your no-sugar-added fruit juice."

I did not know that! I thought it was definitely interesting, and a good way to be able to visualize how much sugar you are eating.