Debra Q. Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 I'm on Day 50, and the only thing I've reintroduced has been red wine. I want to find an alternative to refined sugar for my holiday baking. Can anyone tell me anything about coconut sugar? I've been seeing it in a lot of sugar free recipes lately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmcbn Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 Coconut sugar really isn’t any different to regular cane sugar except that it may have a lower glycaemic load (although current research only presents a range - and quite a wide one at that!). That said it’s fructose content is exactly the same, gram for gram, as that of regular sugar, and whilst it does contain low levels of nutrients (zinc, calcium & potassium) you’d have to be eating bucket loads of the stuff to be getting beneficial quantities – which would be out-weighed by the volume of sucrose/glucose/fructose you’d be ingesting. In short, sugar is sugar is sugar, and your liver doesn’t differentiate between sources. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators ultrarunnergirl Posted September 26, 2016 Moderators Share Posted September 26, 2016 I moved this to the "Life After Whole30" section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators ultrarunnergirl Posted September 26, 2016 Moderators Share Posted September 26, 2016 I moved this to the "Life After Whole30" section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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