Recipe Makeover: Reducing Sugar in the Kitchen (2024)

FAQs

What is one thing you can do to reduce the amount of sugar you eat? ›

Cut back on the amount of sugar you add regularly to beverages and foods including cereal, pancakes, coffee or tea. Try cutting the usual amount of sugar you add by half. Continue to decrease the sugar until your taste buds adjust. Swap out the sugary sips.

If your food is too sweet...

Add an acid or seasonings such as lemon juice, lime juice, or vinegar; chopped fresh herbs, citrus zest, or a dash of cayenne for savory dishes, liqueur or instant espresso for sweet dishes.

Substitute up to ¼ of the granulated sugar in baking recipes with powdered milk. For example, if a recipe calls for 1 cup of sugar, use ¾ cup of sugar and ¼ cup powdered milk. Use dried fruit puree, applesauce, or mashed bananas to replace some of the sugar and fat in cookies and muffins.

Pick lower-sugar options

Choose packaged foods that have less or no added sugars such as plain low-fat or fat-free yogurt, unsweetened applesauce, or canned fruit packed in its own juice or water.

The quickest way to lower your blood sugar is to take fast-acting insulin. Exercising is another fast, effective way. However, in severe cases, you should go to the hospital. High blood sugar levels are known as hyperglycemia or high blood glucose.

Stay hydrated. The more water you drink, the more sugar will rinse from your body. Eat a diet featuring lean proteins (fish, chicken, cheese sticks, etc.) combined with high-fiber vegetables (leafy greens, cauliflower, cabbage, etc.).

Adding lime juice can to your dish can balance out the sweetness. In case, you don't want too much of tanginess in the dish you can also add vinegar white wine vinegar, red wine vinegar, balsamic vinegar.

Sweeteners like fruit juice, honey, molasses and maple syrup contain natural sugar and have some nutritional benefits. Fruit has fiber, vitamins and antioxidants. Even raw honey and maple syrup can contain antioxidants and minerals like iron, zinc, calcium and potassium.

How to Make Food Less Sweet. Add an acid or seasonings such as vinegar or citrus juice; chopped fresh herbs; a dash of cayenne pepper; or, for sweet dishes, a bit of liqueur or espresso powder.

It may be obvious not to add more sweet ingredients, but you should also stay away from salty ones since they actually bring out the sweetness in food. Sour: The general go-to here would be lemon juice, although lime will also work. Orange juice will only add more sweetness as will some kinds of vinegar.

What foods neutralize sugar? ›

Flush out all that sweet stuff from your system by hydrating ASAP with water or other low-sugar fluids, and foods high in water content. "Drink plenty of water and go for foods like watermelon, cucumbers, strawberries and yogurt," Seaver says.

All monosaccharides and some disaccharides are reducing sugars. Among the many reducing sugars are glucose, galactose, fructose, and lactose, which are monosaccharides, and maltose, which is a disaccharide.

Seafood, pork, beef, and chicken are all sugar-free. They're also an important source of protein and omega-3 fatty acids. If you don't eat meat, soybeans, lentils, beans, nuts, and seeds are great sugar-free, high-protein foods.

All those carbohydrates which contain a free aldehyde or Ketonic group and reduce Fehling's solution and Tollen's reagent are referred as a reducing Sugar. Examples of reducing sugar is galactose, glucose, glyceraldehyde, fructose, ribose, and xylose.

If your dish is a little too sweet, try rounding out the sweetness by adding flavors or ingredients that are sour, bitter, or spicy. It may be obvious not to add more sweet ingredients, but you should also stay away from salty ones since they actually bring out the sweetness in food.