Glucose syrup
glucose syrup, corn syrup, liquid glucose, glucose-fructose syrup, high fructose corn syrup, HFCS, fructose syrup, jarabe de glucosa, sirop de glucose
What it is
A sweet, thick liquid made by hydrolyzing plant starch into simple sugars.
Why BOTIA flags it
Glucose syrup is starch broken down into sugars, so it is absorbed quickly. The word "sugar" does not appear on the label, and when a product contains several sugars with different names, each one weighs less and none may appear among the first ingredients. WHO counts it as a free sugar.
BOTIA CAN
- Flag the ingredient as an added sugar.
- Flag it as a free sugar under WHO criteria.
BOTIA CANNOT
- Verify the exact ratio of glucose to fructose unless specified by terms like high-fructose corn syrup.
- Measure the amount of added sugars in grams directly from the text of the ingredient list.