We've tried our homemade apple sauce
as a sugar substitute in several cake recipes, and everyone really seems to like it!
You can use SweetPerfection cup for cup
as a sugar substitute for baking all your favorite cakes, cookies, muffins and desserts.
Used in
baking as a sugar substitute and as a healthy supplement, blackstrap molasses is slightly more nutritious than other varieties and has an intense robust flavor and dark color.
I have to say, that after seeing how well this sugar - free lemon cake came out and how delicately sweet it is without being sickly, I do like
xylitol as a sugar substitute for baking.
Sugar alcohols, like malitol, sorbitol and xylitol, are often used
as sugar substitutes because they provide a sweet taste that does not raise blood sugar to the degree that sucrose does.
Sorbitol occurs in small amounts in fruits such as apples, pears, peaches, and prunes but is used more
widely as a sugar substitute for sugar - free products like chewing gum, candies, and ice cream.
The stevia plant, which grows naturally in South America, has been used
as a sugar substitute since the early 1900s and has recently been sold commercially in several countries.
FOS can be
added as a sugar substitute to «low - calorie foods,» or as a bulking agent or «added fiber» to nutritional bars and beverages, baby foods, biscuits, cakes, confectionery, milk, hard candies, ice cream, yogurt, jams, jellies, muffins, ready - to - eat cereals, sorbet, pre-prepared soups or other commercial foods [5].
After much toxicology and clinical studies, erythritol has been found to be safe for
consumption as a sugar substitute, even when consumed on a daily basis and in high amounts.2 While Body Ecology does not recommend eating any sweetener in high amounts, we do believe that the sweet taste is a natural part of our diets.
Sugar alcohols — xylitol, erythritol, sorbitol, and maltitol — are used
as sugar substitutes because they look and taste very much like white sugar, but they contain much fewer carbohydrates than sugar.
You may have already tried these amazing Date - Sweetened Brownies and Date - Sweetened Peanut Butter Cookies, but I also wanted to give you an option for using dates
as a sugar substitute in practically ANY recipe.
I've always wanted to get into
it as a sugar substitute, knowing that it's totally natural, free of calories, and a zero on the glycemic index, but I just can not get used to its potent, powerful flavor (when extracted it's something like 200 times sweeter than sugar!).
I will discuss
these as a sugar substitute more in the next post in this series.
Brown rice syrup, agave, and honey may all be used as sugar substitutes
Depending on what you are cooking for your baby, there are several items that may be used
as a sugar substitute.