- Am I eating the right type of natural sweetener?
- Is stevia healthy?
- What’s the deal with sucrose and glucose?
- What’s the difference between raw honey and other honey?
- What natural sugar substitute should I use?
We all have questions about natural sugar substitutes so over the next couple of weeks I’m going to be doing a series that covers a whole range of them, and at the end we’ll pull it altogether and decide what the best ones are.
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Natural Sugar Substitutes: Series.
Here’s what we are going to cover:
- What is raw honey? Benefits & Uses
- All about Rapadura sugar
- Stevia sweetener pros and cons
- What is molasses & black molasses
- What is erythritol?
- Coconut sugar
- Fructose vs sucrose
- Best natural sweeteners – a comparison and wrap up
If you’ve got a question or another natural sugar substitute that you’d like to hear about, leave a comment below or come and share it over on facebook.
Why do we need to use natural sugar substitutes?
Everywhere we go today we are surrounded by crap filled with white table sugar. White sugar is a highly processed form of sugar that has been stripped of all of its nutritional value. When you eat white sugar you are eating empty calories, 100% empty. And there is research out there about how sugar affects our health. Unfortunately though your fat cells don’t find sugar empty at all because your body converts any excess sugar into fat!
Natural sugar substitutes are a better option as far as nutrition goes, and throughout this series we will go over the pros and cons and talk about the nutrient value too. I’d love to hear about your experience and ways you use them as we go.
I think one of the most important things we need to know and remember is that our body does not need any excess sugar at all, and that means natural sugars too. We can actually live perfectly fine without any additional sugar but…we do love it!
Us humans have an innate loving of all things sweet and chances are that even if we do reduce it quite a bit, we won’t live 100% without it and so choosing natural alternatives is a much better for our health in the long term.
What natural sugar substitute or sweetener do you currently use?
And if you have a question be sure to leave it in the comments below.
Jedha
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