5 White Sugar Alternatives to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth

5 Sweetener Alternatives  Sugar has a bad wrap. It's often criticized for creating cravings, causing spikes in blood sugar, and contributing to inflammation. Therefore for some, it makes sense to limit consumption. For others, consuming carbs and natural sugars, even in abundance, are part of an active and healthy lifestyle. Both camps can usually agree that when you enjoy something sweet, it’s probably best if they are from less refined, whole food sources. However, is it really possible to make the switch to natural sugar alternatives and where should you start? Here are some of the most popular natural sweeteners...

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Dates- More Than Just A Sweet Treat During Pregnancy

Date Fruit & Pregnancy There is growing discussion about whether dates benefit pregnant women in labor and childbirth. Is this just another health fad, or is there some truth to this trend? Do dates truly help increase contractions and shorten labor? It would seem so. According to the Arabians, dates in pregnancy is part of an ancient remedy that goes back in history for thousands of years. Dates and date products have long held a place of honor in Arab tradition and were used in both women’s diets and in their home remedies. A symbol related to fertility and childbirth,...

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Why You Should Be Eating Dates

So what is a date? Dates are sweet stone fruits that grow on date palms in small clusters and they are harvested around fall or early winter. They lose most of their moisture while still on the tree during the hottest months of the summer.
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What Do Dates Taste Like?

So what do they taste like? Dates are sweet and chewy, delectable little fruits and the ones we love most are caramel-ly and melt in your mouth! The most common dates found in stores are Medjool and Deglet Noor, however, there are over 1,000 date cultivars grown in the world, so it would be a disservice to generalize these tasty gems.

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Substituting Dates In Your Recipes

You may be asking yourself "how do I substitute dates in my recipes?" Well, we have answers. Dates have been used as a popular sweetener alternative for centuries in the Middle East but have just recently grown in popularity in the US. In fact, dates are one of the most nutrient-rich sweeteners on the market.
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Healthiest Sweeteners

Most people are now familiar with the amazing benefits of dates. What people are less familiar with are the two date products popping up on stores shelves: date syrup and date sugar. How do these sweeteners stack up against other “alternative sweeteners” out there?  History Dates and their products are actually one of the oldest sweeteners available today. Ancient cuneiform manuscripts from Mesopotamia mention the syrup, showing it as the primary sweetener of that time. In the Bible, the word “honey” can be translated from the Hebrew to describe a fruit honey, rather than the honey from a bee, and...

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