Weight-Loss sugar has been renamed?

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tiay

tiay

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so, I was getting kind of tired of Kashi GoLean every day, so I looked in the 'healthy cereals' kinda section. As I was looking over the labels, I noticed that "evaporated cane juice" featured a lot. Not (like in GoLean) towards the end of the ingredients, but frequently at second place right after whichever wholegrain the cereal was made of.

It reads well; "organic wholegrain wheat, organic evaporated cane juice..."

supposedly, it is not as 'refined' as regular sugar and therefore has more 'nutrients'.. but all sugar is refined, otherwise there'd be gunk, bacteria and insect parts in it- that degree of refinement is necessary, and that's probably also where most of the nutrients go.
And I don't care how natural a 'sweetener' is, it shouldn't be the second ingredient, especially not on products that are designed to look 'healthy'.

btw, the only cereals I found that didn't have it was Food for Life Ezekiel cereal range.

I find all this downright dishonest. grr.


also, I had a stupid bastard of a yeast infection, and I have to really avoid sweeteners/sugars to prevent it coming back. I'm amazed at all the names they take...
 
Yeah, you do have to be pretty careful about labels. I'm not sure that evaporated cane juice counts as refined though, it is processed- in much the same way that maple sap is evaporated to make maple syrup.

Cane sugar is much further refined to take out minerals, cellulose fiber, plant matter and oils, basically leaving white sugar (sucrose). The bug parts and plant bits are likely a good bit better for you than the sugar.

The extractives removed from the processing are used to make molasses and rum (among other things).

Still as you point out it is an added sweetener. In cereals, particularly flakes, the sugar helps to keep it crunchy and not chewy, once it hits the milk the sugars dissolve and the cereal goes mushy in a hurry.

The more sugar there is, the longer it will remain crunchy in milk. Which is considered desirable.

I've pretty much given up on most dry cereals because of the sugar content and have homemade oatmeal or pearled barley these days.

Thanks for the recommendation for the Ezekiel cereals, I'll give them a try!

David C
 
huh, interesting. yeah, I'm wary of all added sweeteners. the stupidest part is I don't even LIKE them, taste wise. funnily enough, that Ezekiel stuff is REALLY crunchy. In fact, I had to let it soak for a whole while wishing it'd go a bit softer already..

I usually stick to shredded wheat (the kind where wholegrain wheat is the ONLY ingredient) and oats, myself. For some reason, the shredded wheat here (I'm in new york for the summer) has more calories and half the protein than the shredded wheat I get at home (ireland). weird huh?
 
I've been eating buckwheat for breakfast... cooked in the nuker for 6 mins. with water. I add raisins and that's all the sweetener I get. Back when I was a sugarholic I found it disgusting, but once I weened myself off of sugar, I started to really taste it - you can taste the wheat. It's really good!

Cheap cereal, too. And full of good for ya stuff.

Sugar kills your tastebuds, doesn't it?
 
I know from my own experience that both sugar and salt tend to saturate your taste buds and eventually you lose sensitivity to them. I'm sure you've seen people who heap sugar into their coffee or bury their food in salt. I think this is the reason.

I stopped using added salt because of high blood pressure concerns and added sugar as part of my weight loss regimen, after some time went by I really started to be aware of the subtle flavors of food when they werent being obscured by too much added goo.

David C
 
yeah, I totally agree with that. Even if you have, say, a few strawberries and a bit of chocolate for desert, if you eat the strawberries first they taste great, but if you eat the chocolate first, the strawberries wont taste as sweet.

I know this family where the kids are given sweets all the time. They were always complaining about how *active* their kids were, how they never stopped being boisterous, etc. Duh, maybe it's 'cos they're loaded with sugar all day? I'm so lucky to have grown up with natural foods. My parents were strict about other people giving us sweets, too, though I remember once getting a mars bar and *hating* it!
 
Yeah, but that can backfire, too.
Especially if the parents aren't consistent.

I let my daughter have sugary stuff when we're at other people's houses, or in our house for certain occasions, if she wants it. 9 times out of 10, she doesn't. But when she does, she only takes a little bit. But her cousin, whose mom (my sister) is quite the opposite. My sister allows no sweets or packaged anything in her house or for my niece to have anything even when out. So this kid comes to my house and we go out to eat and the kid totally wants soda & dessert.

That's kind of how I was growing up, too. Our parents were strict about it to a huge extent but then would slap a big cake in the middle of the table and say "finish your dinner and you get a piece of this."
 
I guess in my case that didn't work because I didn't have any kind of regular contact with places that I could get sweets. Until I moved out to college and gained more than 10 pounds, true, true :)

kinda the same with abstinence, I guess. If you just say "you can't ever have any!" the kids definitely will have some at some point. But if you explain why it has risks, they'll enjoy it responsibly. eh? :)
 
indigoiis said:
I've been eating buckwheat for breakfast... cooked in the nuker for 6 mins. with water.
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I'm curious about this buckwheat thing! not only does it have complex carbs but it's also alkaline, that's cool. where do I get it and how do I eat it? .. I don't have a microwave :(

damnit! this sucks: Once I've established a good diet here I'll have to go back to ireland where I wont find half of these products.. grrr.
 
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