Tips on Using Sugar Substitutes in Kids Snacks

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So Lisa let’s go over some healthier sugar choices. Yeah some sugar alternatives, sugar alternatives when cooking or baking or preparing meals for kids, exactly well we all know that white sugar is like evil it’s the devil, so we have some other nice alternatives that they are out there cause we all have a sweet tooth, we all want a little sugar in our life and that’s fine and there’s nothing wrong with that just as long as you don’t do it everyday it’s great even if it’s the healthy alternatives it’s still better to at least every other day at the very most. We do have right here Stevia is going to probably be the best alternative it doesn’t bake very well unfortunately but you can add to shakes and all that other stuff just sprinkle on cereal or anything like that, it’s actually a plant leaf it’s been finely ground and it has zero sugars or anything else like that so it works really, really well and it doesn’t raise your sugar levels at all so it’s probably the best choice. I’d say probably the next ones that we have are we have the agave syrup and we have the barley malt and then we have muscovado sugar and then there’s of course the molasses these are great sugar substitutes right here obviously they do have sugar in them so they do raise your sugar levels but there’s other nutrients in these it actually helps your body metabolize and digest the sugars much better. Because when you have just white sugar it basically robs and leaches your body of minerals and vitamins that you need and that’s what happens, it makes you more tired it gives you that energy and you crash, exactly it spikes up the sugar levels, gives you the energy but then you crash and if you keep doing that your body is being wop-lash around constantly. Now barley malt is very good for baking, yes this is a good thing to bake with exactly so is the muscovado sugar and muscovado sugar is basically a different way of making the white sugars actually been all the nutrients have been taken away and the muscovado sugar is basically what white sugar would become, what this would become would be white sugar, this has all its nutrients and minerals and vitamins already with it, so it’s way better than the white sugar and it cooks really well too. Black strap molasses has a little iron is this good, this is a very good sugar to use for baking especially and if you like those molasses cookies there you go. Yeah and you know what when my daughter was a little anemic I put a little bit of this in her oatmeal, oh there you go and mixed it in and that helped her a lot with the hemoglobin and the iron problem, there you go, so we hope that you’ll incorporate some of these sugar alternatives and give them a try.

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