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Sugar Substitutes

Learn how to use sugar substitutes to make your favorite baked treats more diabetes-friendly and separate fact from fiction about sugar substitute safety.

Baking with Sugar, Blends, and Sugar Substitutes

Baking with Sugar Substitutes

Sugar substitutes, sugar blends, plain old sugar -- there are so many choices for baking, what's a person with diabetes to do? We took the guesswork out of choosing a sugar substitute for baking by testing one cake recipe with five different sugar substitutes. Here's what we found.


What You Should Know About Sugar Substitutes


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Thanks to low-calorie sweeteners, it's a lot easier today to have diabetes and still satisfy your sweet tooth -- but it's also a little confusing. To answer your questions about cooking with sugar substitutes, our Test Kitchen put some of the more popular options through their paces.


Low-Sugar Dessert Recipes


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We've chosen our favorite low-sugar dessert recipes. These tasty treats are classified as low-sugar snacks (3 grams of sugar or less) when made with sugar substitutes.


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