A Diabetics Guide to Great Desserts

Diabetes is one of the most common chronic health conditions in the world. It affects the way your body uses food for energy. Diabetics do not produce enough insulin in their bodies and more than sixteen million Americans have this disease, which accounts for six percent of the population.

 

Diabetic desserts recipes are greatly in demand. Just because somebody is not allowed to eat sugar or only allowed to eat a little does not mean they do not crave sweet things just like the rest of us. Artificial sweeteners can be used to transform a normal dessert recipe into a diabetic one. This gives the sweetness without the calories or sugar.

 

One good example of a low calorie sugar free sweetener is Splenda. You can also reduce the amount of sugar in a recipe if cooking for a diabetic or someone who does not want too much sugar. Cutting it by 20% does not normally affect the end flavor.

 

Ideas for Diabetic Desserts

 

Sometimes you can simply replace the sugar in a normal dessert recipe with an artificial sweetener to make a sugar free recipe but this does not work with all dessert recipes. If there is only one diabetic person in the family, it is possible to make delicious diabetic desserts for everyone because they taste just as good.

 

You might like to try making some sugar free jello desserts. These are great tasting and the whole family can enjoy them, not just the person who cannot have sugar. If you have made easy dessert recipes before, you will find making jello recipes very simple indeed. You might like to try making a jello cake or a colorful, multi-layered jello dessert. You can also add fresh fruit slices to jello but remember that a diabetic cannot have too much fruit because some kinds are high in natural sugar.

 

You can also get prepackaged diabetic foods but these tend to be quite expensive so making your own sweet treats and diabetic dessert recipes is always a much better option.

 

Giving Diabetic Desserts Great Flavor

 

You can add flavor to diabetic desserts with flavoring extracts. You sometimes get a bland or metallic taste in diabetic food because of the sugar substitute used so strong flavorings like vanilla or almond can mask this. You can also use flavoring extracts in everyday meals such as some maple syrup flavoring or black walnut flavoring to a pancake recipe. How about adding some coconut flavoring to a sugar free pineapple or orange jello recipe?

 

If you want to try making some jello recipes for your family, why not use sugar free jello instead of regular jello? It is similarly priced and comes in plenty of fruity flavors such as lime, strawberry, blackcurrant, cherry, orange and lots more. Sugar free jello is sweet and satisfying, free from fat, carbohydrates and calories and you can use it to make lots of different diabetic desserts for the whole family to delight in.