No need to overload your cranberry sauce with sugar this holiday season
4 months ago

No need to overload your cranberry sauce with sugar this holiday season

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The holidays are full of delicious and indulgent food and drinks. Cranberries are one seasonal, tasty fruit that can be modified in recipes to be more Type 1 diabetic-friendly – or friendly to anyone looking for a sweet dish without the extra sugar. All that extra sugar can make cranberry dishes hard to consume for Type 1 diabetics, because the sugars cause a rapid rise in blood glucose. Type 1 diabetics – or anyone who wants to reduce the added sugars they're consuming – can try a few culinary tactics to lower their sugar intake while still enjoying this holiday treat. This holiday season you can easily cut the amount of sugar added to your cranberry dishes and get the health benefits without a blood glucose spike.

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Cranberry Sauce is essential for Thanksgiving
55 years, 2 months ago

Cranberry Sauce is essential for Thanksgiving

LA Times  

As a child — and well into my 30s — the wiggly, jiggly log of cranberry sauce that my Aunt Jane served every year gave me the creeps. Times Food columnist Jenn Harris is a huge fan of the wiggly-jiggly, so much so that by design her Jellied Cranberry Sauce is pretty darned close to what comes from the can. …

We Tried A Futuristic Cranberry. It Was Fresh And Naturally Sweet
9 years, 4 months ago

We Tried A Futuristic Cranberry. It Was Fresh And Naturally Sweet

NPR  

We Tried A Futuristic Cranberry. It Was Fresh And Naturally Sweet Enlarge this image toggle caption Angus Chen/NPR Angus Chen/NPR The last time you ate cranberry – perhaps as a dried snack, in a glass of juice or as a saucy condiment with the Thanksgiving turkey – it was likely paired with sugar, and a lot of it. Nicole Hansen, …

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