Sweets
Sweets are an important part of our diet and we all like to indulge once in a while.
However, it is important to choose healthy sweets that are made without refined sugar and its substitutes (e.g. high fructose corn syrup or glucose syrup, glucose, fructose, fruit sugar and beet sugar) to nourish our bodies with key nutrients, rather then depleting it.
Conventional sugar depletes our body from minerals and vitamins and alters a myriad of physiological functions. It is closer to 'a legal drug' rather then a food.
The recipes below are high in protein and the majority are gluten free and dairy free. Only natural sweeteners are used such as monkfruit, stevia, raw honey, coconut sugar or coconut nectar, dates or pure maple syrup, with monkfruit and stevia having the lowest GI of 0 and maple syrup having the highest of 54. Organic brown rice syrup has a very high GI (98) and is therefore not a superior sweetener to use.
The sweets below are super healthy and made with seeds instead of nuts, so they are great treats for school lunchboxes.