How do you cut back on sugar? This is the ginormous question.
One partial solution is to find sweeteners other than crystalline white sugar. Agave, honey, real maple syrup, evaporated cane juice, date sugar, brown rice syrup and stevia (a powdered, natural sweetener now available mixed in with both sugar, and with other artificial sweeteners, depending) all offer possible solutions. Brown sugar...not so much. Raw sugar? Ditto. I've been experimenting a lot with honey, agave and maple syrup mixed with agave, as sweeteners. Evaporated cane juice is, while not optimal, better than refined sugar. Organic Authority addresses this in an article.
And here is an interesting little table of comparative information about the panoply of sugar, sugar-like, and sugar-substitutes, but natural and chemical. Barley Malt Syrup is something I would like to investigate, and experiment with. There are no hyper-links to research, or hard data, connected to this table, so...take it with a grain of salt.
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