Best replacement for sugar for a healthier diet!

[ChickenTacos]

Glass.
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[Fajita Jim]

Honey.

[Auckes]

Brown, non-processed raw sugar, from Demerara (sugar)cane. Healthiest stuff ever, the complete opposite of normal sugar white powdered.

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Sweet'n low.

[Ashes-To-Ashes]

sadness

[Angel]

Fruit

But if you're going to diet, don't get substitutes of sugar as they will most likely still have sugar in them despite what they are marketed as.

[nullpo]

you don't. at least for me removing sugar only backfire with midnight cravings. just eat it but be mindful about it. unlless you're diabetic, and I'll probably answer stevia

[Ulfrinn]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Fajita Jim:

Honey.

Wrong answer. There are two basic types of sugars and combinations of them. Fructose, and glucose. Glucose is readily digestible, but fructose is not, and has to first be broken down by the liver causing further problems on the body. Table sugar is sucrose which is 50% glucose, 50% fructose, so half of that goes through the liver before it gets metabolized.

Honey is 40% fructose, 30% glucose, making it more fructose than glucose and less sweet over all so when you use enough to get the same result, you're consuming more fructose than you would with table sugar. Any additional compounds in honey would be too negligible to have a noticeable impact and would be better consumed elsewhere.

The healthiest sugar would be the one with two glucose molecules binded together, known as maltose. Maltose is called such because it is the primary sugar compound found in barley malt, and being two glucose molecules together, it's fully digestible without needing to be broken down by the liver first, making it the less stressful on the body, and the healthier sweetener to use.

[craigsters]

Note: artificial sweetener's can cause cancer and who in there right mind pays 8 dollars or more for a box of 200 Sweet'n low

back in 2008 a box of 200 packages of Sweet'n low was $7 at all the Canadian grocery stores, I switched back to sugar after those prices, inflation now, the price may be more

use honey or real sugar

[Fajita Jim]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Ulfrinn:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Fajita Jim:

Honey.

Wrong answer. There are two basic types of sugars and combinations of them.

And there are many types of honey, depending on the flower the bees are munching on. Some honey is sweet, some isn't so much. The darker the honey, the stronger it is. Choose a light-colored honey.

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Oprindeligt skrevet af ChickenTacos:

Glass.
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[envirovore]

Not that it's a substitute (as already covered in thread, brown raw unrefined sugar would be better), but a bonus of using locally sourced honey is that it will help prevent pollen allergies from any local plants - should you be one that suffers from them.

[Hobbit XIII]

depends what to replace it for in the meal context.
Grated carrot can be very sweet same with your humble good ole peas - dont grate them.

[Acetyl]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Ulfrinn:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Fajita Jim:

Honey.

Wrong answer. There are two basic types of sugars and combinations of them. Fructose, and glucose. Glucose is readily digestible, but fructose is not, and has to first be broken down by the liver causing further problems on the body. Table sugar is sucrose which is 50% glucose, 50% fructose, so half of that goes through the liver before it gets metabolized.

Fructolysis causes issues if there is a lack of fiber to rate-limit absorption from the gut, and if the dose is high enough to overwhelm it. Otherwise fructose is a good way to quickly replenish liver glycogen. Honey is an odd one because it contains its own sucrases (nd other enzymes), and therefore the split occurs before the sucrose hits the gut lining (where it's rapidly transported across). This means it goes through gut microbiome first.

Agave would probably be the worst for this.

[Morkonan]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Ulfrinn:

...There are two basic types of sugars and combinations of them. Fructose, and glucose. Glucose is readily digestible, but fructose is not, and has to first be broken down by the liver causing further problems on the body...

Just a fun fact: Glucose (Maltose largely in this case, I think) is produced by the interaction of saliva with starches. This is why a simple cracker can taste "sweet."

The mouth is the first stop in the human digestive system and it actually begins the whole process with saliva performing a biochemical function, reacting with the food we eat.

Oprindeligt skrevet af ChickenTacos:

Best replacement for sugar for a healthier diet!

Just reduce sugar/sweeteners across the board. There's not really a "healthy" replacement, it seems. Though, the jury is still out on just how the body reacts to the "sweetness" of something, regardless of further direct biochem/physiological impacts.

To say the physiological response is complex is a huge understatement. There are multi-bajillion money corporations desperately trying to find the sweetest, healthiest, Grail they can find in order become mega-bajillion monies corporations... and they're still trying.

The safe bet - Reduce sugar/sweeteners across the board and only consume them sparingly.

I like ginseng for a sort of replacement. I use it in my green tea. But, I use cane sugar in my home-made coffee creamer. :)

[pasa]

Healthy diet means not that you start to eat all kind of industrial waste instead of food but that you keep proper levels. Sugar is fine. If you're fat, just eat less and start to exercise instead of just sitting in the armchair,