Sugar Alternative

Stevia if you can find someone that stocks it. Artificial sweeteners are not necessarily better than sugar, and some of the additives are downright dangerous.
 
What wuss needs to sweeten the dark rich glory of freshly brewed coffee?
Lame.
 
If you are only drinking a few cups cups of tea/coffee a day any non nutritive sweetener should be just fine unless you have some allergy to any of them.

The green equi-sweet is pretty neat. Half a sachet is plenty sweet itself.
Remember the less sugar you consume the more 'sweet' things taste, truth.

Really depends on how much you consume (tea/coffee) If you find it difficult, start slowly, switch from white to brown sugar, then some lesser refined sugary substitute.
The less refined the better.

I drink buckets of coffee, black no sugar (life is clearly not bitter enough :D )
Tea, a cup in the evening always with a sweetener.

As a diabetic i avoid sugar but also only use sweetener with my tea.
Never quite got the taste down without it.
 
Shaun108 said:
Raw honey is the healthiest sweeener out of the lot. I consume 1kg in a week.
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I don't know where the "halo" for honey is coming from. Perhaps because its natural, but in fact its about as bad as high fructose corn syrup due to the really high content of fructose. And fructose is THE BAD thing in all sugary sweeteners. Fructose promotes obesity and diabetes 2. Honey got even more fructose than normal sugar; so in my eyes honey is even worse than table sugar.

I think one should not drink anything sweetened. If you don't like your coffee bitter or tea; drink water.

A few years ago I switched to organic Kombucha ( that's a fermented tea, but you drink it ice cold ) and I never looked back.
 
Give it another five years. Scientists will discover that Xylitol, Stevia, Honey and and and are actually all super bad for you and will tell you to revert back to sugar or the latest "healthiest" discovery/gimmick :p

Everything becomes unhealthy once it becomes over commercialised. I say life is short; drink the darmed sugar in your tea or coffee if you want.
 
ISP cash cow said:
honey in tea is apparently quite nice. I am thinking about trying it out.
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Honey is essentially sugar and water. The only real reason to use it instead of sucrose is preferring the taste.

Dolby said:
Cons: Still contains fructose
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Of course it does, since sucrose is half fructose.

CamiKaze said:
Honey is not as healthy as some studies say.
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It is simply glucose and fructose, so there is no reason it should be any healthier. It gets its magical aura from being 'natural'.

SaoirseB said:
Give it another five years. Scientists will discover that Xylitol, Stevia, Honey and and and are actually all super bad for you and will tell you to revert back to sugar or the latest "healthiest" discovery/gimmick
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Well honey is fructose and glucose, so if sucrose is bad for you, then so is honey, maple syrup and basically anything else that contains those sugars.

I say life is short; drink the darmed sugar in your tea or coffee if you want.
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That's the best attitude to take.
 
Kalle said:
I don't know where the "halo" for honey is coming from. Perhaps because its natural, but in fact its about as bad as high fructose corn syrup due to the really high content of fructose.
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The primary variety of high fructose corn syrup isn't high in fructose, in spite of its unfortunate name. In fact there's no reason to think it is any different to sucrose in the body (55/45 vs 50/50).

Honey got even more fructose than normal sugar; so in my eyes honey is even worse than table sugar.
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It has a marginal amount more fructose. Hardly likely to be an issue, and I doubt anyone is consuming the quantity of honey that would be required to increase their fructose consumption to the levels necessary to cause harm (pure fructose constituting 30% of consumed calories for an extended period).
 
Honey.

Have you tried brown sugar or even treacle though? A bit less refined.
 
Shaun108 said:
Raw honey is the healthiest sweeener out of the lot. I consume 1kg in a week.
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I just looked it up. Impressed that 100g of honey only has 304 calories.

Where do you get your raw honey?
 
I wouldnt recommend maple syrup as a sugar substitute for tea or coffee - it has a very specific flavour. If you;re that way inclined, honey is a more neutral falvoured natural alternative. Personally, I hate Stevia and Xiylotil - they're both gross. Rather try cut down or cut out sugar depending. I have gone down to half a sugar in tea/coffee as opposed to my old 2 tsp. We also prefer brown sugar over white at home now.

For cooking or baking, we use sugarbeet or apple syrup as a sugar or honey alternative (or even sometimes just to add an extra flavour dimension to meals, gravies, glazes, cakes, muffins, smear on toast, whatever). You should be able to get it in most health food stores. Its great - a definite must have if you're trying for a healthier approach to consumption.

http://www.grafschafter.de/

And merry christmas btw :)
 
requiem said:
I just looked it up. Impressed that 100g of honey only has 304 calories.

Where do you get your raw honey?
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Know an oke in Plettenberg bay who has an apiary. He posts to me in DBN.
 
Stevia is the most vile thing you can put in your mouth. seriously.
Xylitol is better but stevia taught me to just skip sugar all together
 
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