Are There Any Healthy Sweets? Something That Is Tasty And Sweet, But Healthy?

[Jane32]

Are there any healthy sweets? Something that is tasty and sweet, but healthy?

[grasscarp]

What about making your own dried banana chips. Slice bananas and lay on parchment or foil on baking tray and brush with lemon juice. Put in oven for 1.5 hours on lowest setting.

[flobadob]

Grapes?

[pastafreak]

Bananas and grapes are both very high in sugar. Berries are the best choice if you want to keep sugar down.

[Jane32]

pastafreak, that's what they write. But there are some things they don't write about - things they add which may cause kidneys' deseases (otherwise it would have been too expensive w/out this preservative) and you should read about the way your cocoas have been stored and how many cockroaches and beetles you eat (otherwise it would have too expensive).

[Jane32]

The previous is about chocolate. Berries are great! Yeah!

[Jane32]

Tilly, ha ha! That's really a good answer!)

[EDDIE51]

If you refuse all types of sugar, including fruit sugar and honey, and all types of artificial sweetener there can be nothing sweet to eat at all.

[Jane32]

No, I don't refuse fruit sugar (but bananas and grapes) and good honey. I just hoped to hear something I didn't know about... Fruits and berries are great. And a little bit of honey. Are those all sweet things in life?

[EDDIE51]

^^ By your criteria yes, that is all the 'sweet' things there are.
How about carrots? carrot cake was originally developed during WW2, the shredded carrots make it sweet without sugar which was strictly rationed .

[Jane32]

EDDIE51, carrots have too much starch, sorry about that.

[seadogg]

Walk briskly for half an hour every day and you can allow the odd sweet or choc. Our favourite sweets are dates, which we chop and sweeten the morning porridge with.

[Jane32]

I hoped there are some other sweet healthy things and that I would get a lot of ideas...

[Jane32]

seadogg, thank you. A good point, but I don't think sport eliminates all the hazards of unhealthy food. Dates have too many calories.

[hc4361]

The only other thing I can think of is breast milk - that is sweet and natural, with no added anything.

[Jane32]

hc4361, breast milk has no objections other than being a drink, not food.

[hc4361]

Freeze it for a milky ice lolly :)

[Jane32]

OK, frozen breast milk accepted. But is it the only new idea I've got from so many bright minds?

[Hypognosis]

If carrots have too much starch then, presumably, potatos are right off the menu, too?

Carrots eaten raw yield fewer calories than when cooked until soft because cooking breaks down the cell walls and enables digestive enzymes to get at the cell contents. You would need to chew raw carrots down into a fine paste to get the same nutrition put of them and that would take hours.

As a contributor to dietary fibre and making you feel full (supressing appetite), I don't see how you can eliminate them entirely.

Roots, nuts, berries and meat once a week (emulating the successful hunt, which often takes this long to achieve and bring home) is how I would summarize the 'bushman' diet. Both carrot and parsnip are on the (slightly) sweet side, imho.

[Old_Geezer]

Sweets are not designed to be healthy. They are an occasional treat. One needs to get a sense of perspective about such things. Or go without.

[EcclesCake]

Homemade fruit leather? It's just dehydrated fruit purée.