Top 5 Natural Sugar Substitutes | Natural Sweeteners | Natural Sugar Alternatives to protect your health - Every one knows the fact that regular refined white sugar is harmful for health. Still people are not able to drop sugar from their diet until they get diabetes. Instead of waiting for a day when you are asked to completely avoid sugar and prescribed daily dose of medicines, start replacing refined white sugar with healthy sugar alternatives early not only for you but for your whole family.
I have seen many old people who add a lot of sugar in their diet but still they do not have diabetes. Also, I have seen some people who do not add more sugar in their diet still get diabetes. There are so many factors influence the onset of diabetes including family history. Even though we cannot completely protect ourselves from such diseases, we can take some preventive steps to prevent or postpone such diseases. Healthy lifestyle, exercise, diet, replacing sugar with natural sweeteners might help you to prevent from diabetes. Who knows? Prevention is always better than cure right.
The modern parents have already started reducing the amount of sugar they give for their kids. Thanks to the awareness!
Honey, Palm Jaggery, Jaggery, Palm Sugar, Dates are the best natural sweeteners gifted by the mother nature. Try to introduce all these natural sweeteners/natural sugar alternatives at very young age of the kids. So that they do not have difficulty in continuing them throughout life.
I am sure that store bought bakery items and sweets are loaded with high amount of sugar to make it more delicious. Always try to make sweets at home and replace sugar whenever possible. If you find difficulty in replacing the sugar completely, you can gradually replace it.
There is not one natural sugar substitute / natural sweetener which will please everyone. Many people find palm jaggery (Karupatti) as a good sugar substitute for coffee. But I like to have coffee with jaggery. Some people like lemon juice with honey. Some might like to drink lemon juice with jaggery powder. Do not force yourself to stick to a particular natural sugar alternative. Try different natural sugar substitutes and find out which natural sweetener goes well with what kind of dishes. Then it is quite easy to replace sugar which means a better healthy lifestyle.
Top 5 Natural Sugar Substitutes | Natural Sweeteners | Natural Sugar Alternatives:
1. Honey as a natural sweetener and health benefits:
Honey is a natural sweetener which is on top of my list of natural sugar substitutes. Even you can just have a spoonful of honey as and when you have craving for something sweet. When my kid asks for chocolate, I give him 2 tsp of honey in a small bowl with a spoon. As he is small, he takes at least 5 minutes to finish it off by himself. By that time, he mostly forget about his request for chocolate.
Honey is called as Then in Tamil, Ten or Then in Malayalam, Sahida in Punjabi, Tene in Telugu, Madhu in Hindi, Jenu in Kannada, Madha in Gujarati, Madha in Marathi.
Top 7 Health Benefits of Honey:
There are several scientific evidences available to substantiate the health benefits of honey.
- Natural immune booster
- Natural anti-inflammatory agent
- Prevents Cancer formation
- Natural antimicrobial agent
- Natural promoter for healing chronic ulcers and wounds.
- Natural antioxident
- Good for weight loss
Are you convinced that honey can be the best natural sugar substitute with lot of health benefits? There are few dishes which do not taste best with honey. In that case, I really look out for some other natural sweeteners like below.
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