| To begin with, the artificial sweeteners | | | | not healthy. The big manufacturers use the |
| should be avoided at all costs. They are many | | | | cheapest ingredients to save money regardless |
| times sweeter than sugar and have had very | | | | of what it does to you. So they like using |
| bad effects on people including making people | | | | artificial (chemical) sweeteners and corn |
| fatter. They are not really foods and are | | | | syrup which is slightly worse than sugar. |
| more like drugs. Sugar cane is not really | | | | |
| that bad for health. What makes it bad is the | | | | Health food stores have healthy alternatives |
| process that they put it through. | | | | and they are ingredients in some health |
| | | | foods. Some have the ingredients called sugar |
| This is similar to what they do with wheat | | | | cane and invert sugar cane. The former is |
| and rice. They take the nutritious part of | | | | regular even if it says organic sugar cane. |
| the sugar cane out. It is a thick black | | | | The latter is no different than corn syrup. |
| liquid called blackstrap molasses. It is | | | | |
| sweet and sold in the health food store. It | | | | The healthy sweeteners are raw honey, pure |
| is very nutritious with lots of iron and | | | | maple syrup, agave (from a cactus), barley |
| chromium. The part that is left is called | | | | malt, stevia ( a healthy herb that is sweeter |
| sugar and has calories but no nutrition. | | | | than sugar) and rice syrup. The dried cane |
| | | | juice may not be the healthiest sweetener but |
| They advertise for people to buy chromium | | | | it is fine as an ingredient in something. The |
| supplements since it is needed to metabolize | | | | blackstrap molasses is healthy. |
| sugar. The sugar robs your body of the | | | | |
| chromium and other things. If blackstrap | | | | The sugar that is already in foods, like in |
| molasses is sold in the health food store, | | | | fruit, are the healthiest sweet things. This |
| where is the sugar sold? It is sold in the | | | | information is for ingredients when making |
| fat and sick food store. | | | | something or buying something and reading the |
| | | | ingredients. It is much healthier to eat |
| Health food stores now have Succanat or dried | | | | sweet fruit on an empty stomach like |
| cane juice. This is the sugar cane without | | | | watermelon, strawberries, blueberries, kiwi |
| taking out the good stuff. Many health foods | | | | fruit, mango, pineapple, apples, oranges, |
| have this as an ingredient. It is not brown | | | | pears and grapes. Try to get organically |
| sugar. Brown sugar is just sugar with a | | | | grown fruit when it is possible. |
| little bit of mmolasses added to it. It is | | | | |