 Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome if you are new here We have another video in our clean eating 101 series today We are going to be talking sugar all things sugar and sweeteners what to buy and what to avoid This is the one question that I have gotten so many times since I transitioned to clean eating And that is what are you doing in replacement of sugar? What types of sweeteners should I buy and look for on ingredient labels and what types of sweeteners should I stay away from? So I am here to answer all of your pressing questions as far as sugar goes We're gonna talk about what sugars to absolutely avoid in Ingredient labels as well as in their raw form and also what types of sugars We should be purchasing and sugar alternatives are clean and safe and our body knows how to work them and process them So if you want to hear about sugar all things sugar, just keep watching First I want to talk about your traditional white table sugar and in the white table sugar arena Falls things such as sugar in the rock and turbinado sugars These are all highly processed white sugar in order to get the brown coloring they'll add things such as molasses or Coloring enhancers like caramel coloring to the sugar which none of that you want to process and so first We are going to talk about your traditional Table sugar your white table sugar and this also includes sugar in the raw and turbinado sugar Don't let the raw in the turbinado fool you these are still your traditional white sugars And they should be avoided the reason that white sugar or table sugar is so bad for you Is it kills the good bacteria in your gut? therefore when you are eating these sugars your gut has to work extra hard to process them and Most of the time it kills off all of the good bacteria and introduces the not so good bacteria into your gut So that is the main reason to stay away from your white or your table sugars Secondly white sugar will fuel the cells in your body that produce cancer So it's so important to feed your body with whole natural ingredients so that you aren't Making yourself more susceptible to diseases and things such as cancer and gut related issues and high blood pressure and high Elevated sugar levels and diabetes all of these things are fueled by white sugar So it's important that you completely eliminate that out of your diet But what do you replace your traditional white sugar with well? There are some great sugar alternatives on the market number one and the most popular and the most Beneficial and good for you clean eating sugar alternative is going to be monk fruit You guys know I love my monk fruit sweetener. You can buy the big bag of Costco for such an incredible price It is a mix of monk fruit and urethra tall, but it is a clean whole sugar alternative It's a great option for you They make a powdered sugar blend and a golden blend and then my favorite is just your traditional white Granulated sugar blend great for baking adding in your coffee just using as a sweetener Stevia is another great option for a sugar alternative Stevia comes in the granulated form and it also comes in little droppers with flavoring Stevia is a great option as a sugar alternative Most of these are one-to-one ratio for your traditional white table sugar But your body knows what to do with these and how to digest these sugars So if you're going to eliminate white sugar and you want an alternative or a zero point or a zero or low calorie alternative Stick with month monk fruit or stevia But the best replacement for a white sugar is going to be coconut sugar Coconut sugar is made from the palm of the coconut. It is clean whole food. Your body knows how to digest it It is going to have the same smart points as traditional white sugar But if you don't want to give up your sugar, you don't have to on ww. Just replace it with coconut sugar. It tastes so good It's so sweet. I've been loving just one teaspoon of coconut sugar in my coffee with my creamer in the morning And it only cost me one smart point and it's a clean delicious sugar alternative You can find this pretty much at any grocery store Also, if you can find date sugar in your area date sugar is another great replacement for your traditional white table sugar I find this mainly at health food stores if you have a sprouts or whole foods in your area Or for me, I don't have either one of those stores So I find this at my natural grocers or any of my local organic natural food stores So date sugar does have points, but it is just made from dates So again, it's low on the glycemic index and your body knows how to process it Now let's talk about a few other sugar alternatives to absolutely steer clear of number one is going to be malatol If you are not regular TMI malatol is a good option for you because it has a diuretic effect to it. It is Terrible it spikes your blood sugar you find malatol in a lot of Chocolatey types of treats that it is not a clean eating option for a sugar alternative And it's one of the worst as far as digestive and and bathroom issues So steer clear of malatol your rethritol is also a no now The monk fruit is mixed with your rethritol the way that it is mixed makes that monk fruit Okay, but if you are buying a strict your rethritol, it's not one of the best options Is it better than white sugar or malatol? Absolutely, but I would use it as the last resort of a sugar alternative I would lean more towards your monk fruit sweeteners or your stevia before you purchase your rethritol Another no is xylitol. Not only is xylitol completely deadly to pets in a small small amount Xylitol is a chemical sugar alternative your body does not know how to process it and it spikes your blood sugar So xylitol what even in gum form is a no now if you are going to be chewing a gum that has a Spiritame or ma or xylitol pick the one that has xylitol But I highly recommend again steering clear of xylitol and choosing either the monk fruit or the stevia your equals your sweeten lows Absolutely not those have a spare time in them, which is a chemical which your body absolutely does not know what to do with It is foreign to your body your body does not process it It is terrible for you It is what is found in equal in sweeten low so those are an absolute automatic out now If you're looking for a packet of sugar alternative you can go with whole earth whole earth is a great option for a sugar alternative Most Starbucks have these so make sure if you're ordering a drink at Starbucks You're asking for whole earth in replacement of the sweeten low or the equals whole earth has great ingredients And is pretty clean as far as a packet sugar alternative You also want to stay away from Splenda Splenda is made from sucralose Sucralose is a chemical that spikes your blood sugar and again your body doesn't know how to process these these sugar alternatives So steer clear of all of those and again monk fruit stevia that's where you want to be spending your zero calorie or low calorie sweetener alternative or Coconut sugar that's where you want to put your money when it comes to sugar and sugar alternatives And the last one that I want to touch it briefly on that is a no is swerve now swerve has a horrible Cooling effect. It's it's terrible I bought swerve because I thought that it was a great alternative But I can't get past the cooling effect swerve is not a clean food and swerve should also be avoided Sorry to say now if you're not a hundred percent clean eating you can pick and choose from these sweetener alternatives But I just wanted to share with you the ones that are the cleanest and the ones that are best for your body to process So now let's move into what about real sweetener alternatives that aren't sugar honey Is an excellent sugar alternative, but honey can be a little bit tricky You want to buy organic raw honey Trader Joe's has a great one Costco has a stellar price on organic raw honey What you want to stay away from is pasteurized honey. This is just your traditional honey that you find in your local grocery store Yes, the little bear is awfully cute But that is pasteurized honey and studies have shown that a lot of this honey is coming overseas from China And it's not actually honey honey from honey bees. Nope. It's rice syrup So basically it's a processed sugar that they're calling honey by adding some honey coloring to it So steer clear of that always purchase organic raw honey If you can't find organic make sure that you are buying raw honey also maple syrup Real organic pure maple syrup is a great sweetener option now with honey and maple syrup a little bit goes a long ways Yes, you're gonna have to count points for it But it's real whole food that your body knows how to process some of my favorite syrup options are the Trader Joe's Vermont pure maple syrup Or really any type of organic maple syrup again Costco has some great options Your local health food stores going to have some great options Trader Joe's and Costco I find to be the most cost-effective way to purchase maple syrup and again It goes a long ways But it's an all-natural sweetener that your body knows how to process so what you want to avoid when it comes to maple syrup is sugar-free and The regular conventional maple syrup like the Aunt Jemima's the Mrs. Butterworth's that you buy in your grocery store because most of these are made with Corn syrup and they have caramel coloring which is an artificial coloring that isn't even needed in food that they put in things like maple syrup One thing that we tend to classify as a healthy Maple syrup alternative is agave now agave is a no-go my friends You want to steer clear of agave because it spikes your blood sugar just like traditional white table sugar Isn't that crazy? So maple syrup honey, they don't spike your blood sugar They're low on the glycemic index, but agave is just like eating traditional white table sugar It really really spikes your blood sugar So you want to stay away from any type of agave or agave syrup whether it's organic or conventional And the last sugar alternative that I want to share with you that is a great option for brown sugar alternative first Let's talk brown sugar my friends brown sugar is simply white table sugar with molasses added to make it brown So it is terrible for you because not only does it have white table sugar It also has molasses now if you're gonna buy molasses the only time that you should be buying is a black strap molasses This is a clean molasses. I've seen this at places like Trader Joe's and health food stores But your brown sugar that you buy off of the shelf is made with just regular conventional Corn syrup be not good for you molasses So the best brown sugar alternative and lucky for us weight watchers It is zero calories and zero smart points is going to be sucran gold Sucran gold is an amazing brown sugar alternative. It does not have any cooling effects. It is so good It's clean clean clean. You can buy sucran gold off of the net triton website There's a link down below for net triton. I'll put it in the description box. Just click it head over to net triton There's lots of great clean eating options on there But one thing you can find is the sucran gold also as a second or a backup to sucran gold You can buy the monk fruit of the Lakonto golden This is another good brown sugar alternative But best in class is going to be the sucran gold and you guys know That's the one that I always use or for the most part use when I am leaning towards a brown sugar alternative So I want to give a quick kind of honorable mention So to speak to coffee flavored syrup I know that is huge in the Weight Watchers community when it comes to something to add to our coffee So things such as skinny syrups or Turani or Da Vinci sugar-free syrups Steer clear my friends most of these syrups are actually all of these syrups are made with either sucralose or Which is Splenda or they're made strictly with Splenda now again Splenda is a chemical Your body does not know how to process it and it spikes your blood sugar your insulin levels It's very high on the glycemic index So I recommend that you steer clear of any type of flavored coffee syrup If you're really trying to eliminate not good for you sugar alternatives from your diet I know it's a sad day But I did mention in the previous videos that I've been doing creamer with a little bit of coconut sugar or monk fruit And you can add you know a little vanilla extract to get some flavoring and there's also some good for you Are good coffee creamers that are flavored out on the market So steer clear of these skinny syrups and all of those coffee syrups. All right friends That's it for this edition of clean eating 101 all things sugar. I love me some sugar So I was really excited to do a little bit of research and come up with some What to buy and what to avoid when it comes to sugar So I hope that this helped you out again You can find most of these at your local grocery store your health food store such as your sprouts and your whole foods and a lot of Great options at your local Costco or Sam's Club So check those out before you go spend a little bit extra for these sugar alternatives Thank you so much for watching if you're new welcome welcome This is part of my clean eating 101 series about a month ago I switched over to clean eating on WW and I'm here to show you how you can eat real food and still stay within your smart points budget and see Better bigger losses on the scale and just feel better in your body overall So today's sugar video is a definite must-take note write these down add these great options to your next grocery list Please make sure that you are subscribed and your bell notification is turned on so you don't miss a single video I'd love it if you thumbs up this one if you're loving this clean eating series and comment down below Let me know what did I share with you today that you had no idea that you have in your pantry? 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