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sneaky sugar synonyms

additional considerations for sweetener
choices after The 21-Day Sugar Detox
SUGAR HOW IT’S MADE
DETOX all sugar and sweeteners listed here are out The more highly refined a sweeten-
BUST SUGAR & CARB er is, the worse it is for your body.
CRAVINGS NATURALLY
for The 21-Day Sugar Detox For example, high fructose corn
syrup (HFCS) and artificial sweet-
eners are all very modern, factory
made products. Honey, maple syr-

NATURAL SWEETENERS* up, green leaf stevia (dried leaves

made into powder), and molasses
Brown sugar Date sugar Molasses are all much less processed and
Cane juice Date syrup Palm sugar have been made for hundreds of
Cane juice Dates Raw sugar years. In the case of honey, almost
crystals Fruit juice Stevia (green no processing is necessary. As a
Cane sugar Fruit juice leaf or extract) result, I vote for raw, organic, local
Coconut nectar concentrate Turbinado sugar honey as the ideal natural sweet-
ener after your 21DSD.
Coconut sugar/ Honey
crystals Maple syrup WHERE IT’S USED
This is a reality check. When you
*Natural sweeteners are the options I recommend using in
read the ingredients in packaged,
very limited quantities after your 21DSD.
processed foods, it becomes obvi-
ous that most of them use highly
NATURALLY DERIVED SWEETENERS
Food manufacturers even hide sugar
Agave Fructose Mannitol
in foods that you didn’t think were
Agave nectar Glucose/ Muscovado sweet! Many foods that have been
Barley malt glucose solids Refiner’s syrup made low-fat or non-fat have added
Beet sugar Golden sugar Sorbitol sweeteners or artificial sweeteners—
Brown rice syrup Golden syrup Sorghum syrup avoid these products!
Buttered syrup Grape sugar Sucrose
Caramel High-fructose Tagatose HOW YOUR BODY PROCESSES IT
Here’s where the high-fructose corn
Carob syrup corn syrup (Tagatesse,
syrup (HFCS) commercials really
Corn syrup Invert sugar Nutrilatose)
get things wrong: Your body actu-
Corn syrup Lactose Treacle ally does not metabolize all sugar
solids Levulose Yellow sugar the same way. Interestingly enough,
Demerara sugar Light brown Xylitol (or other sweeteners like HFCS and agave nec-
Dextran sugar sugar alcohols; tar were viewed as better options for
Dextrose Maltitol typically they diabetics for quite some time because
Diastatic malt Malt syrup end in “-ose”) the high fructose content of both
Diastase Maltodextrin requires processing by the liver be-
Ethyl maltol Maltose fore the sugar hits your bloodstream.
This yielded a seemingly favorable
result on blood sugar levels. However,
ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS it’s now understood that isolated
fructose metabolism is a complicated
Acesulfame K/Acesulfame Potassium issue and that taxing the liver exces-
(Sweet One, Sunett) sively with such sweeteners can be
Aspartame (Equal, NutraSweet) quite harmful to your health. Fructose
Saccharine (Sweet’N Low) is the primary sugar in all fruit. When
Stevia, white/bleached (Truvia, Sun Crystals) eating whole fruit, the micronutrients
Sucralose (Splenda) and fiber content of the fruit actu-
ally support proper metabolism and

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assimilation of the fruit sugar. Whole
foods for the win!

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