Healthy and good tasting? If this is possible, I’m in!
Real sugar or sugar substitute?
For the most part, I stick with real sugar. (Or, to be more exact, I try to stick with LITTLE real sugar.) Although the lack of calories in sugar substitute is an extremely tempting lure, I cannot shake the feeling that sugar substitutes have some hidden consequences: cancer? paradoxical weight gain? growth of an extra toe? Maybe this concern is because I feel it is too good to be true, or maybe it is the lingering memories of my high school science fair project (that won me a trip to State Science Fair two years in a row and won me a fair amount of prize money) that I conducted in high school over the effects of monosodium glutamate. [YES, I AM A NERD. Always have been, always will be.]
True, MSG is different than sugar substitutes, but it seems to me to fall in…
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