B-Lite Classic Daily Energizer Curbs Your Sweet Tooth
Read About What No Sugar Added Really MeansThen Order Your B-LIte Classic To Curb Your Want For Sweet Foods.
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America's love-hate relationship with sugar is problematic to say the least. Every single person in this country consumes 130 pounds of sugar a year, on average - more than 2.5 pounds a week. Added sugars in food are directly correlated to weight gain, and a host of health ailments as a result.
The need to eat less sugary foods is clear, but it's much harder to do than people think. The majority of foods in grocery stores have some sort of sweetener in them.
Food manufacturers are trying to reformulate their products to include less sugar. It's a fine line between reducing sugar and maintaining the flavor and texture that will continue to placate consumers.
Trying to wean yourself from sugars, you may be tempted to purchase products with marketing claims such as "No sugar added". That phrase doesn't mean what you think it means.
Sources of sweetness in products with no added sugar
1. Lactose is a naturally occurring sugar in dairy products such as milk and yogurt. There's about 1 gram of lactose per ounce of milk. In a standard 5.3 ounce cup of yogurt, that's just under a teaspoon and a half of naturally occurring sugar.2. Sugars from fruit. Fruits are naturally sweet due to fructose and glucose, single molecule sugars. However, when eaten whole, their fiber content helps protect against blood glucose spikes. Most processed food products use processed fruit, which means you'll be getting more sugar and less fiber.
3. Fruit sugars from fruit puree, fruit juice concentrate, or fruit juice are just as problematic as table sugar. For example, you can buy dried cranberries that have been sweetened with sucrose (table sugar) or apple juice concentrate (fructose and glucose). The latter may be even pricier. Both have the same deleterious effect on your blood glucose.
B-Lite Classic Daily Energizer Curbs Your Sweet Tooth
What about zero-calorie sweeteners?
Non-caloric sweeteners such as stevia, aspartame, and sucralose often replace calorie-laden sweeteners in foods and beverages, but don't necessarily solve the problem of weaning us from our sweet cravings. Then there's the issue of health risks for some of the artificial sweeteners.Additionally, zero-calorie sweeteners lead to the use of additives. Removing sugar and replacing it with a much sweeter alternative means using less. For example, 10 grams of sugar can be replaced with just half a gram of artificial sweetener. In order to retain the volume of the product, bulking agents are used. On the ingredient list they may appear as modified starch or maltodextrin.
A recent trend is the reduction of sugars in a product through the combination of both zero calorie sweeteners and sugar. In such cases the marketing sound bite is "reduced sugar" or the crowd favorite "lightly sweetened".
How to reduce your sugar intake
- Eating home cooked food is the best way to avoid added sugars (and sodium and fats).
- Hydrating solely with water instead of juices, smoothies, and soft drinks.
- Reading nutrition labels and ingredient lists.
- Using the Fooducate app to scan product barcodes and get the info in a snap, including suggestions for healthier, low sugar alternatives.
B-Lite Classic Daily Energizer Curbs Your Sweet Tooth
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REF: Fooducate
