Stevia + fresh strawberries

[SunnyD]

I have not tasted a single sugar substitute that actually tasted like sugar or even tasted "sweet" to date. And I've tried almost all of them.

 

[SP33Demon]

What the hell is wrong with using sugar?

Calories and insulin release. I'm guessing you don't have diabetes.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

What the hell is wrong with using sugar?

What SP33Demon said, and tooth decay.

 

[surfsatwerk]

What SP33Demon said, and tooth decay.

Diabeetus I get, saying tooth decay as a reason makes you appear to be loony tunes.

 

[destrekor]

Calories and insulin release. I'm guessing you don't have diabetes.

I don't have diabetes, but I definitely see the need in cutting back on real sugar intake. Our body is not at all designed to consume as much sugar as we do on a daily basis. What we consume in a day can be more than our body should have in a week, if not far longer.

Not to mention, cutting back on sugar and eating less of it throughout the day, along with cutting back on simple carbohydrates, will definitely benefit energy levels throughout the day, and help prevent drowsiness. The body acts fast when it comes to sugar, and the following biological reactions are something we should all desire to minimize.

But see, I don't just desire to "live" and get by. I seek returning my body to an optimum level, peak physical condition. The right nutrition alone can definitely help keep the body ticking the way it should, with healthy HDL/LDL/trig levels, blood pressure, and the condition of muscles and tissues.
Seriously, high sugar and low fatty acid intake (or high omega 6s and 9s and low omega 3s) does a terrible number over the course of decades. Being at age 40 or 50 and plagued by body issues is something I'd like to avoid.

 

[surfsatwerk]

I don't have diabetes, but I definitely see the need in cutting back on real sugar intake. Our body is not at all designed to consume as much sugar as we do on a daily basis. What we consume in a day can be more than our body should have in a week, if not far longer.

Not to mention, cutting back on sugar and eating less of it throughout the day, along with cutting back on simple carbohydrates, will definitely benefit energy levels throughout the day, and help prevent drowsiness. The body acts fast when it comes to sugar, and the following biological reactions are something we should all desire to minimize.

But see, I don't just desire to "live" and get by. I seek returning my body to an optimum level, peak physical condition. The right nutrition alone can definitely help keep the body ticking the way it should, with healthy HDL/LDL/trig levels, blood pressure, and the condition of muscles and tissues.
Seriously, high sugar and low fatty acid intake (or high omega 6s and 9s and low omega 3s) does a terrible number over the course of decades. Being at age 40 or 50 and plagued by body issues is something I'd like to avoid.

We're talking about strawberrys. Have some perspective about the issue. I defy you to find any person who suffers from health complications because they put too much sugar on their fruit.

Why fudge up a perfectly good combination with some weird fake sugar crap? There are so many other areas of the average diet where you can cut out sugar that would have a much more dramatic effect on diet then a few tablespoons or teaspoons of it over berries.

 

[SP33Demon]

We're talking about strawberrys. Have some perspective about the issue. I defy you to find any person who suffers from health complications because they put too much sugar on their fruit.

Why fudge up a perfectly good combination with some weird fake sugar crap? There are so many other areas of the average diet where you can cut out sugar that would have a much more dramatic effect on diet then a few tablespoons or teaspoons of it over berries.

Well it tastes just like sugar to me except it comes from a different plant. I enjoy sweet things but had intentionally avoided them because of the sugar. Now I don't have to which rocks. Sweet tea, fruit, whatever. I just wish that everything that uses sugar would make the switch and I'd actually drink soda again.

 

[surfsatwerk]

Well it tastes just like sugar to me except it comes from a different plant. I enjoy sweet things but had intentionally avoided them because of the sugar. Now I don't have to which rocks. Sweet tea, fruit, whatever. I just wish that everything that uses sugar would make the switch and I'd actually drink soda again.

That makes sense for high calorie foods. And not that I got this from your post, but the general attitude that sugar is bad is annoying.

From a personal taste perspective nothing is an adequate substitute for real sugar. Somebody made me cookies with that sucralose crap the other day and I had to ask what I had done that made them ruin perfectly good cookies. Hate me all you want, but dear god don't take it out on the cookies.

 

[destrekor]

That makes sense for high calorie foods. And not that I got this from your post, but the general attitude that sugar is bad is annoying.

From a personal taste perspective nothing is an adequate substitute for real sugar. Somebody made me cookies with that sucralose crap the other day and I had to ask what I had done that made them ruin perfectly good cookies. Hate me all you want, but dear god don't take it out on the cookies.

Sucralose IS terrible. Also bad for you.

Most people haven't been trying things with Stevia products, because it's so new and barely advertised.

I guarantee you it, as a base product, is nothing like the fake sweeteners you have tried before.

Also, I have nothing against a little bit of real sugar in anything. If sugar on berries is just one thing among many that has sugar in what you enjoy, it's equally as bad as any other source of sugar.
If that sugar on berries is the only source of sugar the whole day, and something else is another day, that's not bad at all.
But a few teaspoons of sugar, in combination with the amount of sugar already in the berries, is actually more sugar than you should make a goal of having in a day.

But like I said, my perspective is the occasional treat, once a day, not at all bad. Or even 6 days a week of healthy eating, and a day of splurging, not bad at all. Keeping the insulin levels low on average throughout the week is the top goal.
But if it's just another sugar treat among many throughout the average day, yes I find it bad.
Not saying I'm some kind of sugar nazi who doesn't enjoy these treats - I'm in the midst of change, and I still eat too much sugar according to my own goals, but it's a slow and steady period of change. Also less shocking to the body.

What I've seen in quite a few places about a responsible amount of sugar to be consumed, at most, per day?
Something around half the amount of sugar in a single can of pop.

 

[mchammer187]

If you are gonna add anything to strawberries you add whipped cream.

A. Tastes Better
B. Less Calorie Dense than Sugar per unit weight