If you like things sweet but would like to cut back a little on your consumption of industrial sugar, you can opt for a healthy alternative. Here we have put together good alternatives to sugar.
Sweetening without sugar
Honey
Quark dishes, yogurt, salad dressing, cakes, and all kinds of porridges can be combined very well with honey, and in this way they even gain more flavor and a special aroma. Tea can also be wonderfully sweetened with honey and taste better.
But be careful: babies and small children should not be given honey to eat, as nutrition experts advise.
Concentrated juice syrup
Concentrated juice syrups come in a wide variety of flavors. My favorite here is agave syrup. It is very suitable for sweetening fruit salads or quark/yogurt dishes and tastes best to me and my children (tip: Hofer/Aldi has a good-tasting organic agave syrup). There is also rice syrup, apple syrup, and pear syrup.
Stevia
It is a good alternative to sugar. It can be used to sweeten dishes easily.
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Babies should not be given honey during their first year of life, because a certain bacterium in honey can colonize the intestines and from there spread to the bloodstream. The consequences can include muscle paralysis, weakness in holding up the head, intestinal paralysis, difficulty swallowing, and even respiratory paralysis. Fortunately, however, this clinical picture has only been observed in infants up to the 6th month of life, presumably because the intestinal flora is more stable at a later point. Therefore, it is very important not to give honey to infants under 12 months.