Have a sweet tooth? Try satisfying it with more nutrient-rich fruit and fewer foods with added sugars. Sweeten your day as you cook.
- Enhance fruit’s sweetness with heat. Stuff a cored apple with cinnamon, dried berries, and nuts; bake at 350°F until slightly softened. Poach pears in fruit juice; top with toasted nuts.
- Choose unsweetened cereal. Sweeten with fruit.
- Top pancakes, French toast, and waffles with fruit purée. Swirl fresh, frozen, or canned fruit in a blender; thin with juice. Use fruit purée as a glaze for meat, poultry, or fish, too.
- Toss fruit in garden salads: dried cranberries, blueberries, or cherries, or cut-up fresh fruit.
- Add a sweet perception. Some ingredients bring out sweetness: vanilla, peppermint, other extracts. So do “sweet” spices and herbs: cardamom, cinnamon, coriander, ginger, lavender, mace, nutmeg, mint.
- Opt for canned fruit in natural juices. Look for canned fruit, flavored with “sweet” spices, too.
- Cook with quick-frozen fruit, no added sugars.
- Buy unflavored yogurt. Sweeten with chopped fruit, berries, fruit purée.
- Add sweet garnishes: berries or diced fruit on sweet potatoes, pumpkin soup, broiled seafood.
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