Unfortunately, this is not so easy with the fruit snacks, because in many types of fruits there is a high amount of fructose — and supports a diet just as little
as white table sugar in cakes and desserts.
By indulging in healthy treats day after day, I was pumping my body with way more sugar than it could ever need in a day — yes, even natural or healthier sugars have the same effect on your body
as white table sugar — that's a story for another post!
Not exact matches
1 cup butter (2 sticks) salted butter, softened 3/4 cup granulated
sugar 3/4 cup packed brown
sugar 2 large eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon
table salt 2 1/4 cups all - purpose flour 8 ounces
white chocolate, chopped, pieces no larger than 1 inch, excellent quality, such
as Callebaut 1 cup pecans, chopped
The issue however is the quality and the type of salt that you're using,
as white table salt is sadly just like
white sugar - it's been totally processed and stripped down so all the goodness is gone, one of the biggest losses from this is the loss of the salt's natural forms of iodine, which is essential for a healthy thyroid and metabolism.
The problem with overeating refined carbohydrates such
as white flour and sucrose (
table sugar) is that amylase, an enzyme, quickly converts them into the simple
sugar called glucose.
While all of the sweeteners above are natural, and less processed and more nutritious than
white table sugar, it's important to note they still count
as added
sugar.
The biggest offenders are
sugar (including sucrose,
white table sugar, and others such
as high fructose corn syrups) and flour, and the thousands of products made from these two deadly ingredients (from ketchup and mayonnaise to energy bars and sports products, and almost all liquid refreshments).
The resulting
white, granulated
sugar that we know
as table sugar, is sucrose, a disaccharide molecule of fructose and glucose.
I never had the same bad effects from natural fruit
sugar as I had from
white table sugar.
But high - fructose corn syrup and liquid fructose are added
sugars,
as are
white and brown
table sugar, honey, molasses, corn syrup, maple syrup, raw
sugar, and dextrose.
Sucrose is a chemical name for
table sugar, which can appear
as white (purified) or brown
sugar.
White sugar, also known
as table sugar / sucrose, has a perfectly safe glucose to fructose ratio of 50:50.
Sugar includes glucose, fructose (
as in fruit
sugar), lactose (
as in milk), sucrose (
as in
table sugar), maltose or malts (
as in rice malt and honey), jam or jelly (contains concentrated juice, which is high in fruit
sugar), maple syrup, corn syrup, palm
sugar (traditionally used in macrobiotic cooking), and the very deceiving organic brown
sugar, which is not all that different from
white sugar.
Table sugar can indeed spike the blood with glucose, but so too can other simple carbohydrates such
as white bread.
As you know, his approach was to give people enough calories with
white rice, augmented with fruit, fruit juices and
table sugar to meet the caloric needs of his patients.