All sugar is bad – get rid of the hidden one

Sugar is bad and this I guess you know: are all types of sugar bad for you? In practice, yes, unless we consider the reserves of natural sugar, or fruit sugar, which when we eat fruit does not cause us the same problems as in the “extracted” version or fructose. There are certainly types of sugar that are less harmful: from agave syrup to coconut sugar. There are sugars that are not recognized by the body in terms of calories : stevia or erythritol, to give you two examples. There are sugars with a low glycemic index, and natural sugars with a low glycemic index such as organic honey.
There are at least two but: 1) for natural non-caloric sugars such as stevia, the long-term effects on the body are not yet known, in particular the brain’s response to the sweet taste that does not give calories; 2) the methods of extraction and production of many natural sugars transform the theoretical good into a bad product from a nutritional point of view: if you do a research you discover that agave syrup is a trend with some flaws, that bees are you feed on sugar to make honey, etc. This is why nutritionists recommend that we avoid sugaring anything, and limit the sweetness in our life

How? For example, I buy fructose when I can’t afford erythritol or good honey: the high sweetening power allows me to use little of it, for example in desserts with chopped fruit (apple pie, a classic of mine) I put about 70 grams for a whole cake. It goes without saying that if I ate an eighth of a cake (a nice piece) I would have less than ten grams of fructose. Nothing compared to the two and a half tablespoons of sugar in your fruit yogurt.
And here is the sore point: if on the one hand we must all learn to eat less sweet, on the other we must defend ourselves from hidden sugar. The problem is not to sweeten the coffee in the morning: we can learn to drink it bitter or drink it with as little sugar as possible. The problem is what we buy in the supermarket.
I indicate these four things highlighted in an article, but in all my lists of foods that make you fat that I publish regularly you will find an endless list of foods with hidden sugar.
1) Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks: they add eleven percent more sugar to our diet.
2) Biscuits, bars, breakfast cereals (including organic ones), snacks and baked goods: they add twenty / twenty-five percent more sugar to our diet.
3) Fruit and vegetable preserves, chocolate spreads, sauces and dehydrated fruit : they add thirty percent more sugar to our diet.
4) Dairy products, spreadable cheeses, ice cream, fruit yoghurt, over-the-counter desserts:they add up to nearly six percent more sugar to our diet.
BUT HOW TO RECOGNIZE SUGAR IN THE INGREDIENT LISTS:
Simple, the sugar in store products masquerades under these alternative names: corn syrup, dextrose, fructose (and many components with in -ose endings), fructose syrup, glucose syrup , juice or syrup or grape must, invert sugar, fruit syrups, sucralose, isomalt, isoglucose or inulin syrup, molasses, maltose or malt sugar, levulose, honey.