For those who bake a lot and love to eat yummy sugary treats,  but want to be health and calorie conscious:

Many delicious recipes call for icing sugar, among other ingredients, which looks and tastes great, but can add lots of empty calories per teaspoon. So what can one use instead of sugar. How about Stevia? Stevia is a plant sugar with zero calories, a safe and healthy alternative that tastes really sweet, and looks just like regular icing sugar. Powdered Stevia is available in health food stores everywhere and you can add additional ingredients such as cinnamon, cardamon, dried ginger and nutmeg powder along with the stevia to spice up what ever treat you are making.

So the next time you are baking, try Stevia and add a lot of guilt free sweet to your treats, let me know how it turns out.

By: Sushma Shah, Toronto Naturopathic Doctor at the Nature’s Intentions Naturopathic Clinic.