Not exact matches
For the filling: ▪ 3 packages (8 ounces each) cream cheese, at room temperature ▪ 2 tablespoons all purpose flour ▪ Good pinch
of table salt ▪ 1 1/3 cups (9 3/8 ounces) granulated
sugar ▪ 3/4 cup sour cream, at room temperature ▪ Seeds scraped from 3 large vanilla beans or 4 teaspoons
pure vanilla extract or paste ▪ 4 large eggs, at room temperature
Pure maple syrup is an unrefined
sugar so it is a better alternative to standard
table sugar however, it is still a form
of sugar so the less the better.
For cooking and baking, I opt for a natural stevia and
sugar blend instead
of pure cane
sugar, since the blend has 75 % fewer calories than
table sugar.
In fact, a single serving
of «healthy whole grain» breakfast cereal can have a glycemic index higher than
pure table sugar!
A food with a glycemic index
of 28 means that it boosts blood
sugar only 28 percent as much as
pure glucose (
pure table sugar).
As far as herbs go, stevia is exceptionally sweet, and
pure extracts
of the plant can be up to 300 times sweeter than
table sugar.
Remember that the starches in wheat, corn, or a bowl
of rice cereal break down quickly in your body into
SUGAR and immediately do as much harm to your blood sugar regulation system as if you ate 40 - 60 grams of pure corn syrup or pure table s
SUGAR and immediately do as much harm to your blood
sugar regulation system as if you ate 40 - 60 grams of pure corn syrup or pure table s
sugar regulation system as if you ate 40 - 60 grams
of pure corn syrup or
pure table sugarsugar.
And rice - based cereals (krispies, etc) aren't much better, as they cause just as high
of a blood
sugar spike as
pure table sugar... Ouch!
So, let's get back to how «whole wheat» relates to this... Here is a little - known fact that's often covered up by the massive marketing campaigns by giant food companies that want you to believe that «whole wheat» is healthy for you... but the fact is that wheat contains a very unusual type
of carbohydrate (not found in other foods) called Amylopectin - A, which has been found in some tests to spike your blood
sugar HIGHER than even
pure table sugar.
In the case
of table sugar, they are
pure, simple carbohydrates.