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Just seeking some clarification regards 'dirty' carbs… does this mean ANYTHING sugar based, i.e ice cream, sugary cereal, jelly beans etc? Even if wheat/gluten free? The 'clean' carbs just being white rice, potatoes etc (i.e natural, not man-made)? I'm staying wheat/gluten free, just wondering when it comes to the sugar if I should be watching that on backload days?
depends who you ask.. me personally i eat sugar very very sparingly.. maple syrup is one i do more frequently but anything with basic table sugar i tend to avoid
What does a typical backload evening consist of for you then?
it varies on how i prepare things but basically potatoes and jasmine rice are the staples.. ill thrown in some gluten-free treats now and then which are made of potato, rice, and tapioca starch.. sometimes i will do rice chex and maple syrup. I do a banana shake with a little dextrose sometimes as well.. i generally only have two carb meals on my backloads
Is there a reason why you (and I'm guessing some others) avoid basic sugar? Did you try it and not get the results you wanted?
Is there a reason why you (and I'm guessing some others) avoid basic sugar? Did you try it and not get the results you wanted?
table sugar is about half fructose.. you want to avoid fructose best you can as it really does nothing for you and causes more harm than good in most cases.. this is why fruits should be very limited as well not to mention most table sugar is heavily processed with all sorts of chemicalsbrown spotted bananas are recommended as when they get that ripe their sugar content becomes much higher glucose than sucrose
I would consider the source of the sugar if your going to eat it.. For example a spotted banana compared to a candy bar. With the candy bar obviously being the “dirty” between the two. A closer comparison might be needed with ice cream, depending on brand, and variation. Going with an organic, or maybe frozen yogurt instead might be a better idea. Just read your ingredients list. From what I understand sugars in general are better kept low until last on CN, especially if you are trying to cut the last few % off.
OK, thanks, all makes sense. I'd always viewed sugar as somewhat of a 'bad guy' anyway, but I have seen many people talk of sugary cereal and jelly beans as ideal CBL foods, so it threw me a bit. Clearly not really desirable to be eating loads of sugar then! As you say, checking ingredients is key and I'm well used to doing that anyway. 🙂
Yea for sure, there are “clean” ways of eating it if your going to though. Like I said by brand and label. If your craving a snickers on your CN go for an “Unreal” Copy-cat bar instead. Same taste just without hydrogenated oils, hi-fractose corn syrups and all that junk!
I use dextrose instead of sguar so its “clean”. Which for me, personally, means no gluten, fructose, dairy or nightshade vegetables (the last one because of a neuromuscular pain condition).My CN's mainly consist of dextrose + white rice. But I've become good at making dextrose into some amazing goodies! (Last night I made chocolate meringues ;D)
I was thinking about using dextrose in some baking. Is there any reason why you couldn't follow any recipe (for a cake for example) and simply replace sugar with dextrose (in accompaniment with wheat/gluten free flour of course)? Is it a 1:1 swap or would you need more/less dextrose? As dextrose seems preferable all round, why don't food manufacturers do this; is it purely a cost factor?
It's not 1:1, more like 1.2, 1.3 to : 1 Sugar is “sweeter” than dexrose. You should experiment for your personal taste. I've used dextrose in preparing some home goodies and it needs a bit of getting used to, but work perfectly fine. I even made ice cream with dextrose and hey, what do you know it's still ice cream. 🙂
OK, so if a recipe called for 100g sugar, you'd go with 30-50g dextrose?EDIT: Hang on, I've got that wrong haven't I... would be 200g-300g dextrose?
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