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April G · 02-07-2009, 12:42 PM

Tuesdays Child, totally OT, but both me and my DH are a Tuesday's Child.

So if we compiled a good sweetner/bad sweetner list based on which ones are refined and which are more complex, what would it look like?

I have so many questions and confusions about sweeteners...

We buy local unrefined non-pastuerized honey...

We buy organic local maple syrup (pure maple syrup is NOT the same as organic maple syrup... I can't remember what the difference is now, but my stepmom was telling me that "pure" maple syrup is deceptive because of some processing it receives, I believe...

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When we buy juice or soda we try to buy 100% organic fruit sweetened with no added sugars...

We buy organic raw sugar. I thought that was better than buying refined highly processed sugar... now I'm not so sure.

We buy xylitol but I don't like it much cause it has an artificial sweetener type after taste to me...

ETA: The above are our "usuals", but we do splurge on candy, chocolate and regular soda (no artificial sweeteners EVER) on occasion...

02-07-2009, 12:42 PM	#32
April G Deactivated Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 14,020	Re: What's wrong with Sugar? Convince me it's poison, please? Tuesdays Child, totally OT, but both me and my DH are a Tuesday's Child. So if we compiled a good sweetner/bad sweetner list based on which ones are refined and which are more complex, what would it look like? I have so many questions and confusions about sweeteners... We buy local unrefined non-pastuerized honey... We buy organic local maple syrup (pure maple syrup is NOT the same as organic maple syrup... I can't remember what the difference is now, but my stepmom was telling me that "pure" maple syrup is deceptive because of some processing it receives, I believe... ) When we buy juice or soda we try to buy 100% organic fruit sweetened with no added sugars... We buy organic raw sugar. I thought that was better than buying refined highly processed sugar... now I'm not so sure. We buy xylitol but I don't like it much cause it has an artificial sweetener type after taste to me... ETA: The above are our "usuals", but we do splurge on candy, chocolate and regular soda (no artificial sweeteners EVER) on occasion...

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