I am a coffee lover, in fact I drink make three sometimes four cups a day. I know that is a lot, but honest to goodness, I never finish every single cup before it gets cold or thrown out. Since I am an avid coffee lover, and who loves sugar in her cup, I am always always always looking for a sugar substitute to keep the coffee as low in sugar and calories as possible. And so for the past few days, I have been using Coconut Sugar.
Over the weekend hubby and I went shopping for our household staples, like paper towels and toilet paper at our local bulk savings store. And I usually get a sugar substitute for my coffee. I mean can you imagine, if I put two spoons of real sugar in every cup, well let’s just not even go there! Hubby loves to make his with real sugar, but I just cannot do that. So for me, I happy with my usual substitute, but then I came across this bag of goodness…. Coconut Sugar.
I knew I just had to give it a whirl. In my research via the internet, Coconut sugar is made from a natural two-step process leaving the final product to look almost as if it were brown sugar.
Now as you may know, regular table sugar contains high fructose syrup (sounds scary right?), whereas coconut sugar does not. In fact, I was pleased to not only discover that it was gluten free (I am not a gluten free girl really, but it couldn’t hurt right?) but also found out that coconut sugar contains quite a bit of nutrients that regular sugar does not. It also has minerals such as zinc, iron, potassium, and calcium. Does your sugar do that? I was quite impressed with the benefits of what I learned all just by using coconut sugar.
You can find a 1 pound bag of coconut sugar for about $5 bucks on amazon which is actually a little bit cheaper than what I paid for my bag if you want to give it a try. So far, I’ve been using it the past few days, and haven’t really noticed a difference in taste from regular sugar. It almost seems as it the coffee is a little bit lighter, if that makes any sense. Nonetheless, I will keep using and trying it out to see if it is definitely a keeper.
Do you a sugar substitute? What other changes can you make every day to stay on track to healthy living?
Comments & Reviews
I never heard of coconut sugar, but sounds like it’s really good.
thanks for sharing 🙂
I have yet to try coconut sugar – it’s on my radar now. Thanks for sharing! 😀
This look amazing. I would love to try it.
Sounds great! I started drinking coffee again while travelling up here in Scandinavia. Sweden one of the highest coffee consumptions per person and here in Norway it’s not much less. And I also have to have sugar and milk in my coffee. So if I can get my hands on some coconut sugar I definitely have to try it! 🙂
I need to try this! I’m a 3-4 cup coffee girl myself. 🙂
I would love to try coconut sugar! I am obsessed with coconut everything, but never tried sugar. I need to make my coffee healthier.
I’ve never tried this, but it sounds like the best sugar substitute I’ve heard of so far! Thanks for sharing!
I haven’t tried coconut sugar but love the coconut flavor.
I’m going to have to find some of this. I’d never heard of it!
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I would love to try this! Will have to try hunt it down in my local supermarket
It’s actually easier to find than you might expect. You just have to expand your browzing view horizon 😉
It’s now sold it most stores, grocery markets. In the past it was mainly sold at specialty stores like sprouts, etc.. Trader Joes usually has it in stock.
Cool, this is such a good idea! I have never used coconut sugar before, but I’m a huge coconut oil fan (which I know is not the same thing haha). Thanks for sharing!
Wow, I’m definitely going to look for this and give a try. I too am a big coffee drinker, but definitely have to use a sweetener with it. Sugar substitutes can be so scary, I honestly never know which is worse…real sugar or the substitute but this sounds like a healthy alternative to real sugar. Thanks for sharing.
I have not tried coconut sugar yet but I would like to try it as a sugar-substitute sometime.
Ooo. I’d love to try Coconut sugar. It sound delicious!