Dr. Mark Hyman

Well, juice, pureed fruit juice, molasses, organic palm sugar, date sugar, coconut sugar.

It's got a little lower glycemic index.

Monk fruit sweetener, which is a non-caloric sweetener.

Organic maple syrup, honey, as I mentioned.

Stevia and monk fruit are typically the ones I would recommend.

Sparingly, and erythritol, some people can tolerate it, but don't have that much.

And what should we avoid?

Well, we shouldn't be eating mounds of sugar of any kind, but artificial sweeteners, like, big no-no.

Liquid sugar calories.

If you want to do one thing for your health besides the high fructose corn syrup, it's getting rid of sugary beverages.

Liquid sugar calories are the worst because of how they affect your metabolism.

High fructose corn syrup, don't eat that.

Anything with the word syrup in the name, except maple syrup.

Any things that are all natural, you know, agave is natural, sugar cane is natural, evaporated cane juice is natural, brown rice soup is natural.

That doesn't mean it's good for you.

So the arsenic, that's natural.

Packaged foods that have added sugar, just stay away from that stuff.

In order to make food taste good that's industrial food, they have to add sugar or salt or fat.

And it's surprising, you know, there's more sugar in a serving of prego tomato sauce than there are in two Oreo cookies, right?

So salad dressings, granola, cereals, ketchup, soups, candy, yogurt.