Find the sugar hiding in your food

Sugar goes by more than 70 names on ingredient labels — dextrose, maltodextrin, agave nectar, evaporated cane juice, brown rice syrup, and dozens more. Splitting the sweetness across several aliases also pushes each one further down the list, so products look less sugary than they are. Paste a label below and the checker highlights every match.

How the check works

The checker matches your text against a curated list of 70+ known sugar names — refined sugars, syrups, juice concentrates, and the "-ose" family. Everything runs in your browser; the label you paste never leaves your device. Two rules of thumb for anything it might miss: ingredients ending in -ose are usually sugars, and anything called a syrup, nectar, or concentrate deserves a second look.

Track the bigger picture

Tools help in the moment. For the long haul, No Treat Today asks one question a day — too many treats? — and never resets you to zero. Free on iPhone.