Hi everyone today, we're gonna talk about sweeteners
Many of you know that since the beginning of the year
We've been presenting recipes that are low carb or keto friendly sugar free and all that good stuff
We're doing this to be
Healthier to live a healthier life. We are not doing it for any other reason
I've had a lot of people ask me if we're doing this for weight loss reasons and how much have you lost?
And the answer is we're not doing this to lose weight or lose
We're doing this to get healthy and if we lose weight, that's just a great bonus
we visited with a nutritionist and
we are being monitored and
This is only to get healthy we are not interested in you know
In losing weight, but if that is a residual effect, that's fantastic
In order to do that we have cut sugar from our diet in the best way that we can
I'm not saying that we have gone 100% because we have slipped we've had days out we've had
We've had a recent death in our family and that did cause us to spend about a week
where we were just not worrying about that thing and
So we're just being a lot more mindful. And in order to do that we have to
we have to make
Better choices or different choices and sweetener is one of those things now many of you have been with me for a long time
used to hear me
Talk about how I am completely against artificial sweeteners a hundred percent and that still is very much the case
but I
also am a
Very avid researcher and I do a lot of reading and I love science. So
Before I started using any of these things I started to research all about them
Because I am completely against aspartame otherwise known and sold under the commercial brand equal
You will never see that in any of my videos. I will never
Advocate the use of it because in my opinion it is pure poison
But the sweeteners I'm gonna share with you today
consumed in in moderation are
not bad for you and they can help you from feeling like you're living in a food prison and
It's gonna make life a little more enjoyable. Now what you see before you are options
Most of these are erythritol. This is erythritol
I put I pour all of these out for you so you can see this is the Splenda Naturals
Recently, we've discovered this stuff in the bag says it's made from organic Malto dextran and stevia but this little container
Says that it's made from erythritol and stevia extract. I don't know what's going on there. I'm gonna have to contact
the Splenda people and ask
But I'm gonna explain to you the difference between the Splenda and the erythritol
Both of these things in my opinion are acceptable. They're both derived from sugar alcohols the
Splenda or the sucralose is derived in a little bit of a different way from the erythritol
but they're both good for you meaning to say they're not going to harm you unless
You overindulge in them which could give you digestive distress, and that's not what anybody wants
But this is what the commercial brand Splenda naturals looks like. This is good for
This is good for baking or you know for anything you want to put it in your coffee
I do not personally like stevia at all by itself
Because I feel like it has a really gross aftertaste and that's just me. Everybody is different. They're gonna taste different things different ways
From me pure stevia. Extract is very unpleasant
This is this is a rifra tall and it looks like sugar it
Tastes like sugar and you couldn't cook with it. Just like all these cup 4 cup like sugar. This is the brand of erythritol
I purchased off of Amazon. This is an organic brand. I like it
It's not overly expensive and it's easily accessible and it comes to your house in a couple of days. I
You know literally I bought this bag two months ago. We don't use that much of it
You're using a teaspoon or tablespoon at a time?
I don't make that many desserts and the ones that I have shared with you really don't take that much sweetener
Holley is your gold mine for sweeteners. It is erythritol
Being cup for cup measure like sugar erythritol is 70% as sweet as sugar
Splenda meaning sucralose
Which I also don't really have an example here except this stuff in the bag says that it's organic Malto dextran
That is 400 to 700 times as sweet as as table sugar the rest of these like this is the plain
granulated erythritol
This is the powdered erythritol. So this is a powdered sugar erythritol. And that's under the brand name. Swerve
This is a very very good product. I like it a lot and also this video is not sponsored by anybody
I'm just showing you what we use. This is brown sugar. Swerve. You open up this this bag. I
Dare you to tell the difference between regular brown sugar and this swerve brown sugar, which is erythritol
It tastes like brown sugar
It smells like brown sugar and it works just like we're on sugar cut for Cup in your recipes other options that we have tried
In our house, like this is pure stevia extract straight from the health food store
You know, I just don't like it. But and this is also this is a splendid version of stevia
liquid stevia again
It has an odd back taste for me, but it may not for you
And if it's something you enjoy and that's what you should use to get you through the day
Stevia of course is derived from a plant and it does go through a distillation process in order to make it
into a sweetener and
Stevia is several hundred times sweeter than regular cane sugar
As I said this sucralose four hundred seven hundred times sweeter than regular sugar. The erythritol is only
70% as sweet as regular cane sugar so that being said if
You like things a little bit sweeter after you make a recipe with the erythritol?
You can always the next time you make it bump it up with a few drops of liquid. Stevia
that way it will bring it up to the flavor and and
Sweetness level of regular sugar. I'm gonna say the only thing I don't get a back paste from is the
Erythritol I don't I get a back taste from this this and this but from these three
I do not they're delicious and when you put them in recipes you really can't tell so when you buy things off the shelf
Let's say they're sugar-free ninety percent of the time they're going to be sweetened with sucralose or Splenda
Sometimes they're going to be sweetened with multo dextran in some cases. They're going to be sweetened with aspartame, which is equal
Sometimes they're even sweeten with saccharine. It just depends you're gonna need to become a label reader
We have been huge label readers for years when my girls wanted something when they were younger
the first thing we would do is flip over the package read the label what's inside and
Then they knew there were certain things that I would never buy and then I got a lot of eye rolls
But as they've gotten older they totally understand and now they're avid label readers
So get your kids into the label reading and help them understand what good things are and what bad things are
But like ice and why exactly so I do have some things that we have purchased that are sugar-free
This is the sugar-free ketchup that I've talked about in the past
Along with this is delicious ketchup. They also make barbecue sauce
they make a few other things that are going to be coming out on the market and then
Taurani is all three of these things are sweetened with Splenda
And because look we're not drinking these by the gallon. We're using a teaspoon or a tablespoon
We're gonna dip our fries. We're gonna use this in salad dressing. We're gonna use this on our chicken. We're not consuming
gobs and gobs of it
so, you know this in moderation is going to help you get through the day if you are just starting on a
Healthier path and you want to cut sugar it's an easy thing to do
Especially with the options we have available to us today when I was a kid
You had this stuff in the little pink packet. That's pretty much it and if you're diabetic
Is what you need right here
exactly
Sweet stuff right and you don't have to feel like you live in a food prison if you've just been diagnosed with that
there are lots of options available to you and
You just want to make sure that you understand how each of these sweeteners works
Erythritol does not despite your blood sugar and it helps you maintain
a healthier glucose level sucralose
doesn't spike your blood sugar as badly as other things such as
Mallett all is very bad that Mallett all will spike your blood sugar in a bad way if you have a glucose issue
They put Mallett all in certain brands of sugar-free products and a lot of the time it's candy
sugar-free or diabetic labelled candy is sweetened with mallet all and that can actually
Cause your blood sugar to spike and that's not what you want
So make sure you learn you read you understand and you research and you use what's best for yourself
Let's say you've decided you're gonna make your kool-aid
Because if you're on a sugar-free
Path, then you're not drinking fruit juice either so sometimes we make up some orange
kool-aid
you know the
Old-fashioned packets like you made when you were a kid the kind you add the sugar and the water to in place of orange juice
They also have lots of other flavors and this may not be the best choice
But it is a choice and frankly if you want something that's good tasting and you're tired of drinking water or unsweet tea
That's gonna be great option for you
These are the sweeteners that we're using in our home right now when we make a recipe
We're always sure to help you understand which one we're using in that particular recipe
All of these that you see in front of you can be used in baked or cooked
applications and
They're not going to be a problem. So I say go for it. Give it a try
I'll leave links down below to all of these things that you see in front of you if you want to try them out and
Help you kind of go down a sugar-free path. I think that it's just helpful
I had a lot of people asking me questions. So that's why we've decided to do this video
So I hope this has been helpful
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I do want to address something else. I have had a lot of people ask me
So are you only gonna be doing diet food now and the answer is no
we're just doing this now in our home and we
Present what we eat, we're presenting what we're making we're not we're not gonna be making something that we don't eat
everyone in our house is eating the things that I am sharing with you from the beginning of the year and that is
Just the way it is
So don't feel like I'm totally giving up on the comfort food and all of that though
We can in regardless if I've presented a recipe that says it's sugar-free or low carb or keto friendly
It doesn't stop it from being delicious and it's still gonna be great regardless of if you're on that diet or not
Right. We're giving you more options. So I hope you enjoyed this presentation
I hope it helps you understand a little bit better about these sweeteners and
I hope that you'll give them a try and I hope that you love them and until next time I'll see you
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