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Healthiest sugar alternatives. All right, I know sugar is bad, you know sugar is bad, but what the

heck? What are you going to do instead? Let me run through some of my favorite alternative

sweeteners.

First up is monk fruit.

So monk fruit is small green gore that resembles a melon.

It's up to 200 times sweeter than table sugar.

I particularly like a brand called La Canto.

And quite frankly, I have no affiliation with anything I'm going to show you here today,

except my own product, which we'll talk about in a minute.

You can get chocolate sweetened with monk fruit from La Canto and others.

It's got probably one of the closest to real sugar tastes on the market.

Another one that, unfortunately, you can only find usually in a powder form, which is called

inulin.

Now, inulin is the sugar in chicory, and it's also in chicory root.

It's also the sugar in Yakon root, which I'll get to in a minute.

Inulin is really one of the preferred prebiotics for your healthy gut microbiome. It has a slightly sweet taste, but you're going

to need to use more teaspoon per teaspoon to get the sweet taste you want. Now, there is a product that uses stevia that also has inulin in it.

And it's called sweet leaf.

It combines stevia with inulin.

The reason I like sweet leaf is stevia in general has a very bitter taste, and most people

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