Conner, a nutritionist, has an article up at Psychology Today. For example, she writes. Choose minimally processed stevia green-leaf liquid and powder rather than the heavily processed white powder. She favors honey when she uses a sweetener. But many diabetics will have unacceptable blood sugar spikes if they eat too much honey. Read the whole enchilada. Posted in Uncategorized. Tagged artificial sweeteners, Conner Middelmann Whitney, splenda, stevia, sucralose.
Grains, dairy, and processed foods are off the list, as are sugars — an oft-hidden staple of our modern diets. While other ingredients are more avoidable, sugar or sweeteners — in some variation — are used to enhance the taste in many packaged products. They can be obvious elements, part of candies and desserts, or ambiguous components of so-called healthy foods, such as turkey bacon and fat-free salad dressing. Jerusalem Artichoke Syrup. Artichoke syrup is rich in inulin, a pre-biotic, which feeds other probiotics in the body, so it can be beneficial for the friendly flora of the intestinal tract. Luo Han Guo fruit is a totally natural Paleo food and the dried whole fruit powder has a delicious flavor similar to chocolate or molasses. You can buy the pure whole dried fruit from an herbalist and grind it into a powder using a super blender. This is a thick, sticky sap that is slightly sweet. It is boiled and reduced to 2 percent of its volume to make commercial maple syrup. It can be added into recipes, and a few companies are marketing it as a better-tasting alternative to coconut water.
Paleo can be pretty sure that all restaurants use GMO beet sugar unless otherwise stated with their menu or advertising. Our diet sight, smell, etc. This includes organic, not organic, cane juice, cane crystals, raw sugar cane, cane syrup, sucralose, and brown sugar. But what they do contain is sweetness, and a lot of it. The collective evidence supports that sucralose has no effect on glycemic control. For more information, call us at or diet us online. Raw agave juice is clearly an unrefined Paleo sweetener. Answers to sucralose questions about sucralose found here. It tastes paleo and with rich in a pre-biotic called inulin.