Sweet Poison

Whichever you chose, the first or second option, sugar is sugar in all sorts of names, shapes and sizes, whether found naturally or chemically processed.

Are you craving a sweet snack?

Great!! Grab those sweet crunchy red apples, sweet delicious bartlett pears or those gloriously sweet and tangy mouth- watering pineapples.

Alternatively, maybe you would rather go for some comforting sweet snacks or deserts like chocolate brownies, sprinkled doughnuts and cookies and cream ice cream.

Whichever you chose, the first or second option, sugar is sugar in all sorts of names, shapes and sizes, whether found naturally or chemically processed.

Our Modern-day food habits are filled with sugars and sweets. Keeping fast food and carbonated drinks aside, there are scores of everyday foods that have, what we would call hidden sugars in them. These foods are not sweet to taste, therefore go unnoticed as sugar contributors.

Let’s take a look at sugar; the good, the bad, and the ugly….

Sugar is a carbohydrate, which is the most important source of energy. It is made up of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.