Friday, December 4, 2020

so, should i be concerned about sugar in my diet, not for weight gain, and not for diabetes, but for my teeth?

i've ignored it. but, in fact, there's not much.

sugar in fruit is considered mostly harmless. but, even so, these are low glycemic options - strawberries, avocados, guava peel, kiwi. the banana's a bit more, but it's pretty tame. with those particular fruits, i should be more concerned about acidity and erosion.

the cherry yogurt has sucralose in it and the all bran is actually worse than the vector, overall. the soy i'm using in the fruit bowl has 0 added sugar.

the ice cream is not the best, but i buy premium brand ice cream, and it's actually not the worst - the all bran is. it's not frozen candy canes, it's a high quality product with a lot of cream in it. and whole black cherries, too.

really - the highest sugar component in the breakfast bowl is all bran cereal, which is their healthy, no-sugar flagship product. you could add it up and get something like 15 grams of "added" sugar, mostly from the ice cream and the all bran.

the pasta bowl has carrots, red peppers, beets, pasta, block cheddar cheese, lime, nutritional yeast, sunflower seeds, hemp seeds, garlic, mustard, anchovies, yogurt, hot sauce....where's the sugar? there's some in the soy. it's about 9 g in the amount i'm using. that's it.

likewise, the egg meal doesn't have any added sugar, except in the bread, and that's manageable. there's a touch in the salami. and...

the juice. there's a lot in the juice. but, you'll pry that juice away from my toothless gums. give me dentures or give me death.

that said, i buy actual juice. not drink. juice. it's all no sugar added. i've recently been drinking mostly apple juice, and i've brought some grapefruit juice in for the inositol. i'm very judicious about this - i won't touch fake juice.

and, there's the coffee, which has chocolate soy, which has "organic cane sugar" in it. it's by far the worst thing in the diet, but i'm only taking a tad at a time.

i'll let you interpret this as you may. is my juice really that bad? should i ditch the ice cream and eat more sugar-free yogurt? i dunno. i know i'm not touching my diet, and am not blaming my diet, either, i'm blaming the absence of fluoride...