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sweetner help please

brettsza said:
I dont really like sweets but i like my tea with sugar, ofcourse not now. After diagnosis i started having tea without sugar but just hated it, did try having it for a month thinking i will develop taste to it gradually, but just couldnt.
i never liked sweetners but had no option but to try once, and while roaming in lidl i saw cologram i think was the name, i dont dislike it but are there any bettr options anyone can suggest pls.

Also if i need anything for baking, although i never bake and dont intend to still but would be nice to know what i could use if i do plan to at some point of time.
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There's still a lot of option for you. If you're looking for a natural sugar substitute I would recommend Stevia: it as a glycemic index of 0 and it's natural. You can't really bake with it tough.

For baking I would more recommend acesulfame K:
  • Zero glycemic index.
  • Good option for diabetics
  • Very cheap.
  • Good for baking.
  • No side effects have been reported.
The down side of it is that it's often mixed with other sweeteners, so make sure you bought it clean.

I recommend you to take a look at the sugar alcohols they might very well suits your needs if you take them in small quantity. Most are used in baking and are diabetics friendly. In large quantity they might cause gas and other digestions problems, you should read about it just to be sure.

Also, be careful about sucralose as even if it is a good alternative by it self, it often contain bulk agents that aren't diabetics friendly.

Hope this helps you,

Albert.
 
After trying nearly everything available, I settled with Xylitol, too. Great in both tea and coffee. When I really crave sweet I end up with isomalt treats...O:)
 
Hi John, have you checked the carb/sugar ratio?
It doesn't seem far from plain sugar...
Nutritional Information Per 100g Serving:
Energy 1585kJ / 379kcal
Protein 1.6g
Carbohydrate 93.1g
of which sugars 93.1g
Fat 0g
Fibre 0.2g
Sodium 0g
 
DeejayR said:
I use xylitol occasionally although I don't understand how I can get away with it. There is at least one other thread about it (try looking for "polyols") on here.
I never got used to ordinary tea without sugar so I don't drink it. To me it tastes like straw. I have fruit teas, and am addicted to coffee with double cream. While on holiday recently I got a liking for diet Coke which I have quickly recovered from! I also drink quite a lot of water.
Short answer: if you can't stand your regular drink without a sweetener, abandon the drink and find something else.
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brettsza, I've always hated sweeteners too until someone here recommended xylitol and it's great, I can actually enjoy a cup of builders tea again! I get it in tesco but I think it's quite widely available in other shops too, under the name TotalSweet http://www.totalsweet.co.uk/
I don't agree with the above that we should abandon our regular drink, how can you abandon a good old English cuppa when youve spent nearly 60 years enjoying it :p
 
rowan said:
brettsza, I've always hated sweeteners too until someone here recommended xylitol and it's great, I can actually enjoy a cup of builders tea again! I get it in tesco but I think it's quite widely available in other shops too, under the name TotalSweet http://www.totalsweet.co.uk/
I don't agree with the above that we should abandon our regular drink, how can you abandon a good old English cuppa when youve spent nearly 60 years enjoying it :p
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WHY does everything I type after putting in a link come up in red? It doesn't seem to affect teh link but it's so annoying!
 
MosheBenYehuda said:
Hi John, have you checked the carb/sugar ratio?
It doesn't seem far from plain sugar...
Nutritional Information Per 100g Serving:
Energy 1585kJ / 379kcal
Protein 1.6g
Carbohydrate 93.1g
of which sugars 93.1g
Fat 0g
Fibre 0.2g
Sodium 0g
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as i use only a quarter to half a teaspoon which is more than enough it barely registers on my testing.
it works for me
 
I think some of the sweeteners that appear to have high carb counts are from polyols which are digested differently and therefore don't affect BG.
 
I'm still learning all this, so bear with me for a while:-)
Nevertheless, it looks like the "No added sugar" cereal bars from Lidl, with below 5 % sugar, caused a nasty spike after nearly 3 hours...:-S
 
Hi Patsy, I know Canderel, but I can't get on with the aftertaste. My cupboard is full of barely opened containers of all sorts of brands, until I seem to go well with Xylitol and sometimes Acesulfame K and Sucralose. I love the Sucralose sweetened drinks, but some brands cause more thirst. In the end, I resorted to using a Brita beaker with fresh water, and I got rid of some of the bloating:-)
 
Could someone tell me about the calories sugar alcohols have, ie Erythritol and Xylitol etc.
I've read about the zero affect it has on our BG levels, but what I want to know is how to count the carbs / calories when calculating nutritional information for the food made with it.
Do I count as having zero carbs (because it doesn't have an effect of BG) or do I still add the carbs value even though they're polylols.
 
I gave up sugar in tea as a teenager, when my dentist told me that I would never need another filling - and I haven't. I became addicted to Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi and A&W Diet Root Beer living in Canada and I think they were either NutraSweet or Candarel. My diet soda addiction got worse and I was drinking more than a pack a day. It never occurred to me that they could be pushing me towards diabetes.

I don't have any kind of sugar or sweeteners now, I quit diet soda in 2012. I believe that if you eat a lot of sweet stuff you never lose the taste for it.
 
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