of this sugar intake comes not from candies
and confections, but from soft drinks.
Significant amounts of sugar also find their
way into most processed foods, including
many savory sauces, dressings, meats, and
baked goods. The total sugar content in
processed foods is often unclear from the
ingredients list, where different sugars can be
listed separately as sucrose, dextrose,
levulose, fructose, corn syrup, high-fructose
corn syrup, etc.
Food Words: Caramel
Our word for browned sugar may come
from its resemblance in color to straw.
Caramel first appears in French in the 17th
century as a borrowing via Spanish from
the Portuguese caramel, which meant both
the elongated sugar loaf and “icicle,”
perhaps because they shared a similar
shape and sparkly appearance. The
Portuguese in turn seems to derive from