The best thing is simply exclude simple carbs. Jaggery or wheat bread still contain lots of simple carbs, and not much healthier. The glycemic index of gaggery and suggar, for example, are about the same.
It can be actually counterproductive to think that jaggery or wheat bread is healthier and it it more because of it.
Unfortunately for the average person practically, sweet is something that is needed in a lot of places, like Tea or coffee, or other sweets, and in such cases, jaggery is way way better than use of white sugar.
And of course, eating too much of sweet, overdoing it, now that is a whole other topic but that can be applied to almost everything, overdoing is never good, and we should always keep it at a limit.
very nice to hear, but unrealistic out there in the real world, for most people out there, they’d probably not eat something if it either doesn’t have a little bit of sweet or spice in it, depending on what food it is. It’s a major addition to the food’s flavour and edibility, if I am making sense here, for example: You can drink a chai with no sweet, but it will be terrible, it won’t be good without alteast a little bit of sweet.
So yes, it is not needed but wanted technically, but that really don’t matter when taste is something people give importance too.
And you need to understand, there are some food dishes that are mean’t to be sweet or spicy to a certain level, that’s just how they are made. Again, can you make them without the sweet or spice? yes, but will it taste just as good? Probably not, and that’s being conservative.
So there is nothing wrong in using sweet or having a bit of spice, as long as both is done in moderation, and for that, using something like jaggery is way better than white sugar.
Did you even try to do that? It is not that hard. I live on keto/lazy keto for about 10 years and will never go back.
It is not that hard especially once you study the topic and understand how much damage you do with this diet. Humans were not evolved to be able to handle this much amount of processed food with super easy to digest simple carbs.
Actually as an indian, I made a stupid mistake of suggesting brown sugar, which is as you said, nowadays refined and processed in some way as well.
What I WILL suggest is, jaggery
This is what I actually have been using recently for a good while now, brown sugar is up there for back up, been a long time since I actually used it.
The best thing is simply exclude simple carbs. Jaggery or wheat bread still contain lots of simple carbs, and not much healthier. The glycemic index of gaggery and suggar, for example, are about the same.
It can be actually counterproductive to think that jaggery or wheat bread is healthier and it it more because of it.
Unfortunately for the average person practically, sweet is something that is needed in a lot of places, like Tea or coffee, or other sweets, and in such cases, jaggery is way way better than use of white sugar.
And of course, eating too much of sweet, overdoing it, now that is a whole other topic but that can be applied to almost everything, overdoing is never good, and we should always keep it at a limit.
Sweet is not needed, but wanted. There is difference.
very nice to hear, but unrealistic out there in the real world, for most people out there, they’d probably not eat something if it either doesn’t have a little bit of sweet or spice in it, depending on what food it is. It’s a major addition to the food’s flavour and edibility, if I am making sense here, for example: You can drink a chai with no sweet, but it will be terrible, it won’t be good without alteast a little bit of sweet.
So yes, it is not needed but wanted technically, but that really don’t matter when taste is something people give importance too.
And you need to understand, there are some food dishes that are mean’t to be sweet or spicy to a certain level, that’s just how they are made. Again, can you make them without the sweet or spice? yes, but will it taste just as good? Probably not, and that’s being conservative.
So there is nothing wrong in using sweet or having a bit of spice, as long as both is done in moderation, and for that, using something like jaggery is way better than white sugar.
Did you even try to do that? It is not that hard. I live on keto/lazy keto for about 10 years and will never go back.
It is not that hard especially once you study the topic and understand how much damage you do with this diet. Humans were not evolved to be able to handle this much amount of processed food with super easy to digest simple carbs.
Also consider using alternative sweeteners, like Monk Fruit sweetener.