Dr. Mark Hyman

To quote Shakespeare, you know, a rose is but a rose by any other name.

The other thing you should know is that, you know, we have many names for sugar, you know, in, I think,

You know, the Inuit from the Arctic say they have 100 words for snow.

And we have so many ways of saying sugar, and often we miss it on the label because it's kind of hidden.

So you know what food companies will do?

They'll literally put four or five different kinds of sugar

in some product because you're forced to list the ingredients in order of the amount on the label.

So basically if they put five different kinds of sugar, they can list like a healthier ingredient first, like flour or something, and not actually put sugar as the main ingredient.

So it's really, really sneaky what they do.

The other thing you should be aware is there's a lot of words that you might see like agave,

cane sugar, corn, anything, rice, even brown rice syrup, any kind of evaporated cane juice.

What the heck's that?

That's called sugar.

Even fruit, you might see fruit concentrate or fruit juice.

I mean, that's just basically like sugar.

Anything with os in the end, like fructose, dextrose, maltose,

Triolose, sucrose, these are all sugar.

Anything with malt in it, like malt syrup, flow malt, maltodextrin, also sugar.

Anything with iso, like isoglucose, isomaltose.

Basically, there's a million names for sugar.