Approximate amount: 50-60g maybe? I like to add juuust a little to tea and other drinks, about 1-2g / 100ml. Completely unsweetened (and I count nut milks as sweetener too) irritates my stomach for some reason. (And plain unflavored water causes nausea, so teas it is.) There’s also often a teaspoon or two in some meals to balance acidity or bring out spices. Rarely some chocolate (80-99% cocoa) or a slice of home-baked cake. (I tend to halve the amount of sugar in recipes.) Fruits (fresh or dried) also contain non-negligible amounts.
How I feel about sugar: A little is somewhere between fine and awesome (seriously, add a sprinkle to your carrots when boiling/frying them!), a lot is just disgusting. (Most sodas are too sweet for my tastes. I still have a pack of gummy bears sitting in the sweets drawer that’s been there for almost two years by now… still untouched.) I can absentmindedly absorb about half a bar of (dark) chocolate of the course of a few hours, but then it just stops—I won’t eat the rest within the next 2 or 3 days. Dried fruits are more “dangerous”, here I can fairly easily eat serious amounts before having enough of them. (But even that saturates.)
Change your habits today: Nah, would be very unpleasant. Less would mostly mean stomach ache, which this isn’t worth it for me. More… nah, just no.
If I really wanted to, I could probably force myself to eat a pack of dates for about 2-3 days before having enough of them. That would probably get me about 150-200g extra sugar on each of those days. (Oof!) More refined versions of sugar don’t really work for me. (Even eating a spoon of raw cane sugar isn’t pleasant, I just tried. It tastes nice, has a lot of complexity, but overall it’s still unpleasant and not something that I want to repeat. Plus nearly all of the appeal is in the complex aromas, not the sweetness.) With sweets, eating just 2 or 3 gummy bears is usually enough to really not want more for the next couple of days.
If I really wanted to, I could probably force myself to eat a pack of dates for about 2-3 days before having enough of them.
Actually, I tried that too now. 8 was more than enough, don’t really want to eat more. (Wolfram estimates a single dried date to weigh about 16 g and contain roughly 10 g sugar.) So if that’s right, this was about 80g of sugar. That’s less than half of what I estimated. (Even adding the (tea)spoon of sugar from before as 1-2 extra dates doesn’t make much of a difference.)
Approximate amount: 50-60g maybe? I like to add juuust a little to tea and other drinks, about 1-2g / 100ml. Completely unsweetened (and I count nut milks as sweetener too) irritates my stomach for some reason. (And plain unflavored water causes nausea, so teas it is.) There’s also often a teaspoon or two in some meals to balance acidity or bring out spices. Rarely some chocolate (80-99% cocoa) or a slice of home-baked cake. (I tend to halve the amount of sugar in recipes.) Fruits (fresh or dried) also contain non-negligible amounts.
How I feel about sugar: A little is somewhere between fine and awesome (seriously, add a sprinkle to your carrots when boiling/frying them!), a lot is just disgusting. (Most sodas are too sweet for my tastes. I still have a pack of gummy bears sitting in the sweets drawer that’s been there for almost two years by now… still untouched.) I can absentmindedly absorb about half a bar of (dark) chocolate of the course of a few hours, but then it just stops—I won’t eat the rest within the next 2 or 3 days. Dried fruits are more “dangerous”, here I can fairly easily eat serious amounts before having enough of them. (But even that saturates.)
Change your habits today: Nah, would be very unpleasant. Less would mostly mean stomach ache, which this isn’t worth it for me. More… nah, just no.
If I really wanted to, I could probably force myself to eat a pack of dates for about 2-3 days before having enough of them. That would probably get me about 150-200g extra sugar on each of those days. (Oof!) More refined versions of sugar don’t really work for me. (Even eating a spoon of raw cane sugar isn’t pleasant, I just tried. It tastes nice, has a lot of complexity, but overall it’s still unpleasant and not something that I want to repeat. Plus nearly all of the appeal is in the complex aromas, not the sweetness.) With sweets, eating just 2 or 3 gummy bears is usually enough to really not want more for the next couple of days.
Actually, I tried that too now. 8 was more than enough, don’t really want to eat more. (Wolfram estimates a single dried date to weigh about 16 g and contain roughly 10 g sugar.) So if that’s right, this was about 80g of sugar. That’s less than half of what I estimated. (Even adding the (tea)spoon of sugar from before as 1-2 extra dates doesn’t make much of a difference.)