I’ve been previously having Special K every morning which has close to 5g of sugar per 30g bowl.
Would I be able to have a no added sugar cereal alternative and simply add a teaspoon of sweetener style sugar instead?
I’m still not sure and confident enough in my knowledge with whether I should be including sweeteners in my new vegan diet.
Best cereals are Shredded Wheat, Wheetabix and porridge. But avoid ones with added fruit and chocolate...
You can try a little bit of xylitol which is made from plant fibre
Can you get that textured in a way so that I could basically put it on how I would actual sugar?
I prefer that to tablet sweeteners. I would only be using a teaspoons worth.
It doesn't matter the source of the sweetener, glucose is glucose. It's not about the calories it's about the insulin response. Try to retrain your palette to whole foods with no sweetness added. Vegans can run into trouble with processed foods ,eg. Cereal, 'cause they metabolise very quickly into sugar causing a huge insulin spike , and adding sweetener to the cereal compounds the hit.
I’ve tried some cereals without any sugar and to say they were tasteless is a huge understatement.
I’m not a breakfast guy, so it’s either going to be a cereal (I actually want to eat) or nothing at all, basically.
That, tasteless food, is the reason why you'd be hard pressed to find processed foods that do not have added sugar. To be successful in controlling your insulin response you need to eat whole foods, one ingredient, as much as possible. You're right it is a big change and not easy.
I can eat whole foods and still eat some sugar though, right? I’m not even eating close to a high amount. There’s less than 5g in my cereal (30g) with unsweetened oat milk adding nothing further.
I never intended on cutting out sugar entirely, just like I never intended on cutting out saturated fat entirely. I’m simply reducing how much of it I have and by a wide margin.
It’s about finding a healthy balance for me. I’ve already given up things like crisps, chocolate etc, completely.
I’ve even been told to eat a portion of fruit a day, which I have been doing, and that also counts as sugar.
Well 5 grams of ADDED sugar equals to slightly more than a teaspoon, so 30 grams of cereal is two tablespoons(seven teaspoons) of cereal, if my understanding is correct, so if you are measuring out your portion of cereal, I guess it is not that detrimental, however whole food will always be better, even fruit because of the fibre, cereal has no nutritional value except it provides readily available glucose.
It’s around 5g for the entire 30g portion, so basically nothing to write home about I think.
It does claim to have high fibre.
I have also recently gotten a vegan cereal which uses ingredients that all equate to healthy from what I have been reading, minus the added sugar which is 3.1g per 30g portion.
Yep be careful though you might get arrested for carrying a non essential item in your shopping
Oh don’t worry, that’s not going to happen where I go, fortunately.
I haven’t even seen police around my local, even once.
They are probably too busy already at somewhere like Morrisons with all the blockbusting queues.
Special k isn't vegan I've just found. Weetabix is and is low in sugar, i have it every morning with a spoonful of ordinary sugar. Beet sugar is vegan, cane sugar is purified using bones although the final product is bone free. British Sugar process beet but i don't know which brands or if they only do beet sugar
Thanks for the information! I have Weetabix so that’s handy.
I need to research this “Beet sugar”.
Sounds interesting.
I actually have Lidlabix which is the same but much cheaper. All the own brands are
Do you think it would be better to use this Beet sugar? Or a small amount on a teaspoon of a good sweetener?
Try Stevia - it is a zero calorie plant based sweetener.
For myself I tend to put some berries on Wheetabix or Shredded Wheat.
Silver spoon sugar is made from sugar beet here in the UK and is entirely plant.
You can also buy granulated artificial sweeteners such as Splenda, and Candarel which can be sprinkled on cereal and used in baking instead of sugar. They are made so that a teaspoon of sweetener replaces a teaspoon of sugar.
I settled on three different kinds.... a bag of PURE VIA 100% ERYTHRITOL, an additional bag of TOTAL SWEET XYLITOL and a pot of TRUVIA from Silver Spoon.
Are these options good choices?
The only other Silver Spoon they had at the place where I went had a purple top and was granulated. It also had aspartame in it, which I don’t wish to consume.
How about trying porridge Scottish style, with a bit of salt, no sugar?
Your body can only use carbohydrate if it is in the form of glucose. Complex carbohydrates like starch and sucrose have to be broken down into glucose before they can be used. Hence, it doesn't really matter what form the carbohydrate you eat takes. If you are on a low calorie diet, you can still enjoy a small amount of sugar as long as you cut down on other types of carbohydrate. If you are diabetic, check with your GP.
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