Articles by Dr. Erdman are for informational purposes, and are not to be taken as specific medical advice.
In the last article we talked about the failures of
artificial sweeteners like aspartame, sucralose and saccharin. They are
terrible for your health and well being. I’ve written other articles on stevia,
which I regularly use, and tastes fine in drinks or sprinkled on foods for
extra sweetness. But, you can’t really bake with it without altering a recipe
markedly.
I am going to introduce you to an all-natural, actual sugar
substitute called Allulose.
This real sugar is found in kiwi, jackfruit, figs, molasses, and raisins. Commercially it is extracted from corn sugars that are altered by a single molecule to become this sugar. It is a monosaccharide, or simple sugar, and is absorbed by the body, but not metabolized. That is what makes this sugar have zero calories. It is excreted by the kidneys before it is metabolized, leaving you with “effectively zero” calories.