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Evaporated Cane Juice

Level 4 — Significant concerns

Evaporated Cane Juice is a other additive listed in the FDA food-additive database.

Also: ECJ, dried cane syrup, cane juice, cane sugar

Where you'll see it

sweetened yogurt, granola bars, 'natural' cereals (e.g., Kashi Go Lean Crisp listed dried cane syrup as third ingredient)

What the research says

Evaporated cane juice is sucrose with a 'juice' label that creates a health halo. Metabolically identical to refined sugar in driving fructose-mediated hepatic insulin resistance and glycation. [metabolical] Evaporated cane juice is sucrose with a 'juice' label that creates a health halo. Metabolically identical to refined sugar in driving fructose-mediated hepatic insulin resistance and glycation.

Regulatory status

  • Notes: From enrichment source only, not in Winter Dictionary

Sources

  • Metabolical (Lustig) — Chapter 24: FDA has issued three separate guidances over the past decade on ceasing use of the term ECJ on the label… not one yogurt company has followed suit