Better to have these than have sugar if you cannot imagine your life (tea /coffee /sweets) without sugar and prefer to have raised /twisted blood sugar.

sugarfree ingredients
You don't need to know another layman's views. Check each ingredient on a medical website or with a doctor and avoid if possible.
Two of them on your list are actually as harmful as sugar for a diabetic person.
Ramta_Jogi wrote:Paji for people who have sugar and suppose they want sugar free biscuits with tea then these ingredients are similar like sugar in spiking glucose level in blood?Better to have these than have sugar if you cannot imagine your life (tea /coffee /sweets) without sugar and prefer to have raised /twisted blood sugar.
magur wrote:All of these ingredients cannot be referred to as sugar alternatives as per fda but here every sugar free product have these. Which two ingredients are you talking about paji?You don't need to know another layman's views. Check each ingredient on a medical website or with a doctor and avoid if possible.
Two of them on your list are actually as harmful as sugar for a diabetic person.
These are more harmful than sugar itself.
Try to leave sugar and it's artificial substitute.
Sugarfree means no sugar nd substitute (chemical), though u can use natural like jaggery, dates, khand/bura, stevia (some says it's effect is yet to be proved).
Avoid artificial sugar at any cost, instead of that use jaggery or rock candy in the milk/tea/coffee.
Aauuuuu! Zindagi ka Mazaa toh Khatte mein hai 😜
LG50 wrote:So all ingredients mentioned by me are bad ad sugar itself? Then why are they allowed to use the word sugar free?Avoid artificial sugar at any cost, instead of that use jaggery or rock candy in the milk/tea/coffee.
saucap wrote:Unfortunately some of these ingredients are everywhere like in hajmola candy too, which has mango and imli flavour. Though they don't advertise themselves as sugar freeAauuuuu! Zindagi ka Mazaa toh Khatte mein hai 😜
Tried Sugar-free tea few times and sugar-free halwa once. It tastes somewhat pricklish on tongue.
Artificial Sweetners are not helpful in reducing weight, instead they cause diabetes, heart diseases and increased mortality!
https://www.who.int/news/item/15-05-2023-who-ad...
kukdookoo wrote:
Paji for people who have sugar and suppose they want sugar free biscuits with tea then these ingredients are similar like sugar in spiking glucose level in blood?
No idea. Some take sugar free oats biscuit . Others take atta biscuit made with jaggery. Atleast psychologically it helps them.
LG50 wrote:Avoid artificial sugar at any cost, instead of that use jaggery or rock candy in the milk/tea/coffee.
Stevia is good.
saucap wrote:Tried Sugar-free tea few times and sugar-free halwa once. It tastes somewhat pricklish on tongue.
Different taste ( unpleasant)
Ramta_Jogi wrote:No idea. Some take sugar free oats biscuit . Others take atta biscuit made with jaggery. Atleast psychologically it helps them.
Jaggery is same as sugar with organic impurities. No sugar means one has to choose ones with high low glycemic index/ stevia like stuff.
bikidas2060 wrote:Jaggery is same as sugar with organic impurities. No sugar means one has to choose ones with high glycemic index/ stevia like stuff.
I was writing more for such people who would rather take 2 medicines than part with sugar....
Then there are some rare blessed souls who don't like sugar at all!
Ramta_Jogi wrote:So, health wise these ingredients=sugar?No idea. Some take sugar free oats biscuit . Others take atta biscuit made with jaggery. Atleast psychologically it helps them.
The WHO advisory regarding NNS seems to be based on weak data https://twitter.com/BioLayne/status/16584809766...
kukdookoo wrote:
So, health wise these ingredients=sugar?
Health wise? To be honest, we just don't know what chemical locha is going on inside the body.
Young kids, even toddlers on insulin injections. Some elderly or super duper close to hitting century or with a foot on the grave oldies having no BP /Sugar issues.
Sugar is a lesser evil compared to maida (biscuits /pizza)
kukdookoo wrote:
All of these ingredients cannot be referred to as sugar alternatives as per fda but here every sugar free product have these. Which two ingredients are you talking about paji?
Maltitol and emulsifiers. The rest I can't remember or haven't come across in labels or forgotten.
Stevia is also harmful for some. And even natural sugars like in homemade fruit juice, etc are dangerous for those diabetes is high. If diabetes is under control then one can enjoy an occassional sweet food. My aunt does that now and so did my late grandmother.
Sugar free etc are all myth, my sugar gets high even with sugar free items. Trying hard to control. 😂
Faug wrote:Sugar free etc are all myth, my sugar gets high even with sugar free items. Trying hard to control. 😂
Even with stevia, lactitol, sucralose???
magur wrote:Maltitol and emulsifiers. The rest I can't remember or haven't come across in labels or forgotten.
Stevia is also harmful for some. And even natural sugars like in homemade fruit juice, etc are dangerous for those diabetes is high. If diabetes is under control then one can enjoy an occassional sweet food. My aunt does that now and so did my late grandmother.
Where is it written that Stevia is harmful to some???
magur wrote:Maltitol and emulsifiers. The rest I can't remember or haven't come across in labels or forgotten.
Stevia is also harmful for some. And even natural sugars like in homemade fruit juice, etc are dangerous for those diabetes is high. If diabetes is under control then one can enjoy an occassional sweet food. My aunt does that now and so did my late grandmother.
Sugar is of two kinds ones with low glycemic index and others with high glycemic index. Low glycemic index ones don't spike the blood sugar as much as the high glycemic ones.
Body can't metabolise artificial sweeteners, even if it does it does in small quantities. That's why some of those things are used as osmotic laxatives. Ex: lactifiber, duphalac
bikidas2060 wrote:Where is it written that Stevia is harmful to some???
Stevia extract increases markers of fatty liver disease which include fibrosis and fat levels in the liver.
In 2011 Indian Government banned it and then in 2015 they revoked its ban.
Ramta_Jogi wrote:Stevia extract increases markers of fatty liver disease which include fibrosis and fat levels in the liver.
In 2011 Indian Government banned it and then in 2015 they revoked its ban.
Expert opinion: Natural sweeteners have not been associated directly with NAFLD, and on the contrary, some, such as stevia, and trehalose, may have a protective effect. Rare sugars and polyols can be used safely and have significant benefits that include anti-oxidant effect and optimal glycemic control. Copied from https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32212870/#:~:te....
Ramta_Jogi wrote:Stevia extract increases markers of fatty liver disease which include fibrosis and fat levels in the liver.
In 2011 Indian Government banned it and then in 2015 they revoked its ban.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/stevi...
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bikidas2060 wrote:https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/stevi...
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Marketing stunts and gimmicks. I'd still, any day, prefer shakkar from village (brown colour) over such artificial sweeteners.
Ramta_Jogi wrote:Marketing stunts and gimmicks. I'd still, any day, prefer shakkar from village (brown colour) over such artificial sweeteners.
Woh bhi sahi
