Nutrition
Understanding nutritional terms
Check the lists below to find out what falls into the category of fats, salt and sugars. This may be helpful when reading food labels, and is especially important for people with diabetes.
Monounsaturated fats
- canola oil
- peanut oil
- avocado oil
- olive oil
Saturated fats and trans fatty acids
- animal fat/oil
- Kremelta
- baking margarine
- hydrogenated fat
- butter fat
- lard
- milk solids
- copha
- palm oil
- dripping
- shortening
- coconut oil
- coconut cream/coconut milk
- chocolate
- cocoa butter
- cream
Polyunsaturated fats
- soybean oil
- safflower oil
- corn oil
- sunflower oil
- grape seed oil
Salts
- sodium
- rock salt
- monosodium glutamate (MSG)
- sea salt
Sugars
- brown sugar
- corn syrup
- dextrose
- disaccharides
- fructose
- glucose
- golden syrup
- honey
- invert sugar
- lactose
- malt extract
- maltose
- molasses
- monosaccharides
- raw sugar
- sucrose
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