“Learn about natural sweet which is not
packed by green, red or yellow wrapping in stores but it contains full
nutrition.”
You
can choose natural sweet which are more nutritional to bring many advantages to
your health.
Are you searching for an ideal dish for
afternoon snack?
You can enjoy the afternoon snack by
low-nutrition white sugar or artificial sweeteners, or you can choose
alternative natural foods which are more nutritional to bring many advantages
to your health – for example, lowering cholesterol or supply necessary iron for
your body. There are some nutritious sweet that you can select below.
Agave Nectar
Extracted from the agave (the plant making
tequila), this kind of syrup is considered as a caramel containing more
calories than regular sugar and sweetness over 25%, so you can relish the sweet
as you want with a little bit of this syrup. In addition, agave juice is able
to support the bowel well because it consists of much fiber called prebiotic
which helps to nourish bacteria which is good for your gut.
How to make: Drizzle a little agave syrup
on fermented yogurt to stimulate the ferment and make yogurt more delicious.
Agave syrup also goes well with drinks (from coffee to cocktails) because they
are easy to dissolve. When cooking, you can use ¾ cup of agave syrup for a cup
of sugar.
Mixture of Stevia
It is extracted from Stevia of South America,
no calories sugar and 100% pure. Although there are more than 200-300% of
sweetness compared to sugar but Stevia doesn’t raise glucose amount in blood
and it is non-toxic as when you eat a teaspoon of white sugar.
How to make: Some brands have licorice
aftertaste, so you can freely try tastes you like. When you cook, you use that
mixture to take place of sugar; ½ cup of sugar will be replaced by 3 ½ spoons
of Stevia. If you want to make sweet taste for pastry, cover the surface with a
spoon Stevia, a spoon of cereal grains and a teaspoon of cinnamon.
Honey
Honey is considered as essential food in
the kitchen with a high content of antioxidants and good effects to heart and
hip: according to a survey, a person who absorbs 10 teaspoons of honey everyday
per month will decrease the amount of cholesterol to 3.3% in normal or losing
weight condition.
How to make: There are more than 300 types
of processed honey – from blueberries to buckwheat. Darker honey will be more
nutritious and delicious. You can use lot kinds of honey to eat with cheese or
squash. If you use honey while cooking, try ½ cup of honey to substitute for a cup
of sugar, use ¼ cup of concentrated liquid and ¼ teaspoon of honey when you mix
them with baking powder (as Heidi Swanson – the author of Super Natural
Cooking)
Blackstrap molasses
A special teaspoon of molasses – a product
which results from sugar cane process – contains 15% of daily iron demand of a
premenopausal woman and provides vitamin B6, magnesium, calcium and
antioxidants more than any natural sugars.
How to make: David Grotto – the author of
101 Foods Could Save Your Life recommends to add some teaspoon of molasses
while stewing beans. When cooking, you can coordinate molasses with other
natural sugar to reduce its acid taste. Use 1 ½ cup of molasses to replace a
cup of sugar, 1/3 cup with a spoon of concentrated liquid and 1 cup when you mix
it with baking powder.
