The Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend that you "reduce the intake of calories from added sugars.". List six tips offered in the textbook that help with this task while still catering to the sweet tooth

Answer 1

The Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend that you "reduce the intake of calories from added sugars.". To help with this task while still catering to the sweet tooth, consider the following tips:

• Use less of all sugars, including white sugar, brown sugar, honey, jelly, and syrups.
• Choose sensibly to limit your intake of beverages and foods that are high in added sugars, such as soft drinks, energy drinks, fruit drinks, candy, ice cream, cakes, cookies, and pies.
• Select fresh fruits to satisfy your urge for sweets.
• Learn to read the ingredients list. Check food labels for clues about added sugar content. If any of the following sugars appears first or second in the ingredients list, or if several names are listed, the food is likely to be high in sugar.
• For dental health, remember that how frequently you eat sugar is as important as, and perhaps more important than, how much sugar you eat at one time.
• Alternatives to sweet desserts might be whole-grain crackers, low-fat cheese, and fresh fruit with unsweetened yogurt. Snacks for children could include fruits, vegetables, string cheese, popcorn, homemade fruit juice pops, and other wholesome foods.
• Substitute fruit juices or water for fruit drinks, regular soft drinks, and punches that contain considerable amounts of sugar.
• Buy unsweetened cereals so that you can control the amount of sugar added.
• Experiment with reducing the sugar in your favorite recipes. Some recipes taste just the same even after a 50 percent reduction in sugar content.
• The sweet spices—allspice, anise, cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg—can replace substantial sugar in recipes. Use half as much sugar and increase one and a half times the amount of spice the recipe calls for. Increasing the amount of extracts like vanilla can enhance sweetness, too. Experiment with other extracts like maple, coconut, banana, and chocolate, or try adding dried fruit to baked goods for extra sweetness and nutrients as you decrease sugar.
• Another alternative for reducing sugar intake is to use sugary foods that convey nutrients as well as calories, e.g., raisins and bananas.
• Explore possibilities of using nonnutritive sweeteners to reduce some of the total sugar in your diet.