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Organic Sucanat® - A Natural Alternative to Diet Sweeteners

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Many people ask what they can safely use as an alternative to diet chemical sweeteners. We use Sucanat in our home, and it's my sweetener of choice if you must add sugar to your foods. My best advice - don't use any sugars at all.

Sucanat stands for SUgar CAne NATural. It's an organic sweetener made from 100% certified organic sugar cane. It's minimally processed to remain a natural and very tasty sweetener. After the sugar cane is harvested, it is pressed to squeeze out the cane juice. The juice is clarified, filtered, and evaporated to remove excess water. The resulting syrup is then crystallized, and it is rich in a molasses flavor plus the vitamins, minerals, and trace elements found in the sugar cane plant remain as a source of nutrition. [more]

How To Use Sucanat In Food

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Sucanat is not a pure chemical, it is a pure food.

It has received Kosher Certification: Kosher and Pareve - Kashruth

It has a lower sucrose level than conventional sugar.

Anything is better than sucralose and especially aspertame!!

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I bet it’s super expensive :nosweat:

Just a warning to anyone looking at the page, make sure you ask your doctor about things like detoxes (I saw it mentioned further down) because really, the liver and kidneys do the work! And if you’re ever unsure of a dietary change a doctor is a good bet.

Yea thats good advice also Dez!

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Thank you for the useful post! I will definitely keep it in mind. :)

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I would advise consulting with a doctor or nutritionist before making any dietary changes. Artificial and "natural" sweeteners can cause cancer or other problems.

Especailly

ASPERTAME
SUCRALOSE

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Corn syrup is natural too(though the high fructose variety has been modified). I dont have any medical conditions that force me to avoid sugar, so sugar is my "natural alternative" to artificial sweeteners. But not everyone can do that. This is not any healthier for people on low sugar diets than high fructose corn syrup. The vitamins likely dont add much because most people arent dangerously vitamin deficient. That is mostly just an advertising point.

If you want an actual natural sugar-free alternative to sucralose and aspartame, acquiring a taste for stevia is your only real option.

This is just cane sugar, which is nothing new or significantly healthier. It is like saying a Mexican coke is healthy but an American one isnt... the difference to health is actually negligible or non-existent entirely. At the end of the day, both are heavily sugared sodas.

Also, sucralose is just sucrose that has been chemically modified so that it provides no calories. Im not aware of a mountain of evidence that it is objectively unhealthy compared to sugar.