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Grannie75

Grannie75

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Location
Norfolk
Type of diabetes
Prediabetes
Treatment type
Diet only
I have just treated myself to an ice cream maker ( a bowl in the freezer type as couldn't justify the compressor ones !) but the recipe tells me to use 1 cup of sugar which of course I will replace with a sugar alternative. Please can anyone explain what 1 cup of sugar would relate to if I used erythritol. Would it be the same or a lot less with this.
I am not very good at translating a recipe using alternative products.
 
I am no expert so I Googled it and I got this.

"With only 6% of the calories of sugar, it still has 70% of the sweetness."

So I guess it is a little less sweet than sugar so put a little more in.
 
Hi grannie75 i usually use one cup of erythritol which equals 3 quarters cup of sugar seems all right hope this helped.
 
I suggest that you make the icecream without sugar and add some sweetener or perhaps some berries to small batches, taste them, make notes and if OK then freeze them individually.
If you eat low carb then you will find that over time you become more aware of the sweetness of foods - I have been thinking of trying peas and beetroot as additions to ice cream - just to see what they are like.
 
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