date:Sep 13, 2018
s allowed and sometimes not) and dates -- to replace sugar.
However, these are still sugars and contain the same number of calories per gram as any other sugar. These alternatives offer no additional nutritional benefits other than rice malt syrup, which is a useful option only for those with a fructose malabsorption issue, and dates, which contain fibre.
People often eat more of the food containing these alternatives under the guise of it being sugar-free, which could lead to unintentional we