What you are looking at is NOT my idea of a balanced rockstar breakfast.

It is a beverage and it’s *sugar equivalent.

Click on the picture for more of the worst beverages in America side by side with their sugar equivalents.

*These posts to not list the full carbohydrate content of the foods and beverages. Regardless, the point of the link is to deter the readers from drinking unhealthy beverages by illustrating their excessive sugar content. To learn more about sugar and beverages, visit this link: http://tinyurl.com/2e4haj6

Food/Beverage labeling is deceptive. Here are other names for forms of sugar that, when consumed in excess, essentially do the same thing to your body, or worse:

barley malt
beet sugar
brown sugar
buttered syrup
cane-juice crystals
cane sugar
caramel
carob syrup
corn syrup
corn-syrup solids
date sugar
dextran
dextrose
diastase
diastatic malt
ethyl maltol
evaporated cane juice
fructose
fruit juice
fruit-juice concentrate
glucose
glucose solids
golden sugar
golden syrup
grape sugar
high-fructose corn syrup
honey
invert sugar
lactose
malt syrup
maltodextrin
maltose
mannitol
molasses
raw sugar
refiner’s syrup
sorbitol
sorghum syrup
sucrose
turbinado sugar
yellow sugar