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I need "sugar free" explained to me...

First off, fake sugars like sucralose and aspartame to me are actually poison and not food. Fake colors, neurotoxins as well. So those are out.

So when after surgery I will be allowed sugar free popsicles, I was thinking I could maybe have a frozen fruit bar, natural, no fake stuff. But fruit is sugar. And a lot of these commercial natural fruit bars have some added sugar but the total sugars on the nutritional info are low .

It is hard to find one without added sugar, but one brand I found with "juice only" advertised, has more sugar per nutritional analysis than other natural bars that add a bit of sugar.

So what is acceptable? Thanks.

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I bought some protein water from Walmart. It comes in lemonade, grape, coconut and mixed berry flavors. No sugar, i am going to make my own pops.

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Fruit is actually healthy when you eat the fruit.. the juices are virtually all crap, and on top of being natural sugar without the slower digestion of solid fruit (and in some cases without the fiber), companies tend to add more sugar.. why? No fricken clue. It passes through you quick, quickly absorbs, quickly overloads the liver, liver quickly converts excess to fat. Juices are garbage.

There's nothing wrong if you, say, made home made frozen pops that had like 2g of added sugar per pop, and apparently stevia extract works well enough that some major freezies brands are starting to go with it. Like all things, need to have it in moderation.

Edited by PatientEleventyBillion

On 6/29/2017 at 7:14 PM, GotProlactinoma said:

First off, fake sugars like sucralose and aspartame to me are actually poison and not food. Fake colors, neurotoxins as well. So those are out.

So when after surgery I will be allowed sugar free popsicles, I was thinking I could maybe have a frozen fruit bar, natural, no fake stuff. But fruit is sugar. And a lot of these commercial natural fruit bars have some added sugar but the total sugars on the nutritional info are low .

It is hard to find one without added sugar, but one brand I found with "juice only" advertised, has more sugar per nutritional analysis than other natural bars that add a bit of sugar.

So what is acceptable? Thanks.

Sugar free means no sugar or refined sugar. But may contain artificial sweeteners. NO SUGAR ADDED means that there is natural sugar, but no refined sugar added.

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