Prepare food without sugar
Can you only make sweets with sugar? That's not true, because there are different ways to cook a sweet dish or dessert without granulated sugar. But what options do you have here?
Alternatives to sugar
It has various negative effects on health. It is bad for the teeth, makes you fat, damages the pancreas in the long term and robs the body of important vitamins. We are talking about refined granulated sugar, whether beet or cane sugar, white or brown, rock candy or raw cane sugar. The only exception is whole raw sugar, the dried one juice of sugar cane. Refined sugar, however, can be substituted for in cooking. And what?
- A good alternative to granulated sugar is agave syrup. This one is thick and very sweet. Not only is it a substitute for sugar, it is also valued by vegans as a honey substitute.
- Stevia is available as drops and tablets. It is 30 times more sweet than sugar - you should therefore dose it carefully! Stevia is especially popular in coffee and tea used as a sugar substitute.
- Dates have their own sweetness. They can be added to the food in a blender or cut into small pieces. They are suitable when the whole food is supposed to have a slightly fruity sweetness. Since they do not dissolve like agave syrup or stevia, they are not suitable for all dishes - for pudding for example not.
- Xylitol, birch sugar, is also an alternative to sugar. Xylitol can be obtained from various plant fibers - including birch bark. Xylitol has a slightly cooling effect in the mouth and is said to have caries-protective properties.
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This way you can eat well even without sugar
How do you succeed in eating without sugar? Basically, you can simply swap out some or all of the sugar for the alternatives mentioned above. Here are some suggestions:
- Pudding works wonderfully without any sugar. Stir the custard powder with a few tablespoons as usual milk or soy milk and then add some agave syrup. Then stir the whole thing into the boiled milk and taste by adding a little agave syrup if necessary, until the pudding is sweet enough.
- If you would like to drink green smoothies, but if they are not sweet enough despite the banana, you can add a date or two to the blender. Dates can also be cut into small pieces rice pudding, muesli and sweet boiled cereal porridge.
- Beverages can be sweetened with stevia. If you lemonade or make cocktails, add a little stevia instead of sugar.
- pancakes should be cute? You can do this even without sugar. Mix the pancake batter without sugar (if you don't already do that) and instead of sugar and cinnamon only add cinnamon and self-made sugar-free applesauce on it.
- And how does it look cake the end? You can create a sweet base with dates and raisins. Fresh tastes on it fruit or a cream sweetened with agave syrup. Raw food cookbooks or baking books are helpful for cakes.
