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Can I Still Have Sugar on a Whole Food, Plant-Based Diet?
…here’s the skinny on the difference between the two. Why No Refined Sugar? Refined sugar typically comes from sugar cane or sugar beets. Wait a minute…that sounds pretty darn plant-based…
…here’s the skinny on the difference between the two. Why No Refined Sugar? Refined sugar typically comes from sugar cane or sugar beets. Wait a minute…that sounds pretty darn plant-based…
…with sugar in the normal way due to a lack of insulin. Insulin is a hormone, produced by the pancreas, which allow cells to absorb sugar. If there is not…
…cup butter ¾ cup pumpkin purée 1 cup sugar 1 cup applesauce or banana purée 1 cup sugar ¾ cup puréed dates Other WFPB Sweeteners Apricot purée Fig purée Balsamic…
…went a total of three weeks without sugar, and managed for a couple of months afterward to eat sugar only a few times per month. I found that after deprivation,…
…calories, the same as sugar. However, aspartame is 200 times sweeter than sugar, so a tiny amount of aspartame delivers the same sweetness factor while essentially cutting the calories to…
…sugar-rich maple syrup, dried fruits (e.g., dates, raisins) and even small amounts of refined sugar, each having their unique sweetness, flavors and costs, can be used to good effect without…
…sugar. As the amount of fat in the diet goes up, so does one’s blood sugar. Why would eating fat lead to higher blood sugar levels? It would take scientists…
…structures: Monosaccharides: one sugar molecule Disaccharides: two bonded sugar molecules Oligosaccharides: three to ten sugar molecules in a chain Polysaccharides: long chains of sugar molecules strung together These carbohydrate structures…
…group of volunteers to decrease consumption of all sugars, including fruits while another group were asked to decrease added sugars only. The group who ate less fruit and sugar lost…
