Autumn’s Keto Journey and HBaking with SugarLike

Resting Keto Face Vanilla Cake with SugarLike

RKF Keto Product Score
Taste: 10/10

“Flavour wise this is honestly one of the best ones that I’ve ever had…this is the best keto sweetener for baking”

Resting Keto Face super-versatile vanilla keto cake Youtube recipe

Please note that Autumn only provides HONEST product reviews and ratings

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What are NET CARBS

RKF Review on SugarLike Keto Sweetener

Autumn from Resting Keto Face started her keto journey in April 2018. Since then, she has lost 40 LBS. For Autum, her “why” is more than just weight loss.

For anyone who’s looking to start keto or is new to keto, she has shared some tips which has helped her reach her weight goals and happily stay on course. She provides HONEST reviews – her own opinions about the low carb, keto products that she receives as samples and recommends them to her reading.

If you are struggling to find keto food products or are getting bored of the same food, you can visit her site to view her recommended shopping list and give them a try. 

HER ‘WHY’ FOR KETO

For Autumn, her “why” for keto lifestyle is improved physical health and well-being. Keto has solved some issues for me that extend beyond the 40lb I needed to lose. Keto has proven to improve her health issues and changed her relationship with food, focusing on better ingredients.

Here are what she has been able to correct by following keto:

  • Inflammation
  • Nausea
  • Stomach pain & digestion issues
  • Brain fog, low energy
  • EVERLASTING HUNGER (even after eating)
  • STUBBORN EXTRA WEIGHT (40 LBS gone)

When Autumn started her keto journey, she did an extensive research and these are some of the questions that many of you might share the same interests:

  • What are net carbs?
  • How much carbs should I have a day?
  • Why are some sugar alcohols different than others?
  • What are the best sweeteners on keto?
  • Keto-friendly recipes

One mistake that she guarantees you will make is that you will find that, maybe once in a while, your carbohydrates intake is higher than planned. So what do you do? Don’t stress it out or as she puts it “KCKO” Keep Calm and Carry On.

If you’re already seeing results from the good choices you’ve been making, just continue making those good choices.

MACROS

Understanding macros, how to calculate them based on your caloric intake is key to Keto diet. One of the pillars of keto is a larger percentage of caloric fat intake than protein and carbs combined.

Autumn describes marcos as “the nutritional breakdown of your foods, generally divided into carbs, fats, and proteins. While 20g net carbs is a universal amount that will likely keep everyone in ketosis, fat and protein amounts will vary from person to person due to body size and activity levels”.

WHAT ARE NET CARBS?

Net Carbs are the total effective carbs absorbed by your body.

Important CARBS to remember for keto:

  • TOTAL CARBS
  • DIETARY FIBER
  • SUGAR ALCOHOL
  • NET CARBS

NET CARBS

Since dietary fiber and most sugar alcohols are not absorbed by the body, that is why subtract those to get the final net carb count. On the nutrition facts, you should be able to see the first three clearly labeled, and probably sugars count as well. To calculate net carbs:

TOTAL CARBS – (DIETARY FIBER + SUGAR ALCOHOL + TOTAL SUGARS) = NET CARBS

The following is The Keto Golden Ratio that Autumn recommends keto beginners to follow:

The keto golden ratio. 70% fat, 25% protein, 5% carbohydrates

LESS THAN 20G NET CARBS, OR 5%

With this 20G net carbs to stay in ketosis, you may wonder “How will I be able to enjoy those amazing sweet treats”. That is exactly where natural, sugar-free sweeteners come in. Natural sweeteners offers a NATURAL alternative solution to sweetening all your sweet treats. SugarLike monk fruit sweetener, derived from real monk fruit extract, does not spike your blood sugar levels because it has ZERO NET CARBS, ZERO SUGARS, and ZERO GLYCEMIC INDEX. Even if you are not on a keto diet, you should still avoid refined, processed sugars that lead to the vicious cycle of blood spikes, diabetes, and damage your health.

With keto, Autumn never finds herself feeling hungry (AND HANGRY) all the time and is finally able to ‘treat’ herself and have a healthy relationship with food.

GREAT TASTING & SAFE KETO SWEETENERS?

SugarLike sweetener used to sweeten coffee

This is a very popular question. Her respond to this? “ Yes, of course they’re safe. But you’ve got to use the right kinds”

Yes, there are many sugar substitutes available in the market today. But no, NOT ALL SUGAR  SUBSTITURES are created EQUAL. There have been extensive research on artificial sweeteners and their harmful effects on our bodies.

“Maltitol and isomalt, for example, will cause laxative effects if used in moderate-to-high doses. Those sweeteners also have glycemic impacts almost as high as sugar. In fact, if you check the label on something that’s sweetened with these, it likely warns of the laxative effect that may occur from more than a single serving of that item.”

“The sweeteners that I recommend for keto are erythritol, xylitol (but keep it away from pets!), monk fruit, and stevia.” 

These sweeteners have low to none glycemic impact on blood sugar levels and have great taste. However, most sweeteners cannot be substituted directly for sugar. For example, monk fruit is up to 200x sweeter than sugar while erythritol is only 0.7x as sweet. They normally cannot provide the functions that sugar provides in baking – for example, the quality of rise, the texture, moisture retention ability. This can really complicate things, and requires many changes to the recipe you are using.

Luckily, you’ve found SugarLike! We understand these problems and created SugarLike Encapsulated Sweetener for you to enjoy without any compromises to  health, taste and texture! You can simply use 1 cup SugarLike for 1 cup sugar in your recipes and enjoy the same great taste of sugar. As our sweetener is encapsulated and is not only just a regular ‘blend’ that you may commonly find in the market, we are able to offer a truly premium natural sweetener that closely imitates the functionality of sugar in food and beverages. Give SugarLike a try!


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RKF REVIEW: SugarLike Zero Calorie Keto Sweetener

The facts of SugarLike. SugarLike is keto friendly, diabetic friendly, gluten free, vegan, non-GMO, sugar free, zero calories, zero sugar, zero net carbs
SugarLike sweetener. A picture showing SugarLike and its beautiful granular crystals

SugarLike is a non-GMO, sugar-Free, zero net carbs. It is made with ONLY two ingredients: Erythritol and Monk Fruit Extract. As we have discussed before, Erythritol and Monk Fruit are indigestible by your body which leaves you with 0 NET carbs. Another important note is that Erythritol and Monk Fruit Extract have low-to-zero glycemic impact which is why the perfect choices for Keto. Both have been used for centuries to sweetener food and beverages, especially for people who have diabetes. 

Many sweeteners with erythritol have an overpowering “cooling” effect which you will not find with SugarLike, “The product also didn’t hurt my mouth, like some other granulated Monk Fruit sweeteners have done in the past.”

She also finds that the other sweetener
“isn’t really sweet and doesn’t really do what [she] wanted it to do”  but when it comes to SugarLike, here’s what
she has to say:

“Flavour wise this is honestly one of the best ones that I’ve ever had”

“The cake was really delicate and it just has a really nice texture…I really think that a lot has to do with the [SugarLike] sweetener that we use, so I think that it did a great job at making sure that it was the right texture”

“Since it held up so well in the oven, I’m going to go ahead and say it: this is the best keto sweetener for baking.” She adds.

POSSIBLE USES & RESULTS

a keto vanilla cake sweetened with sugarlike

“I’ve used this sweetener in my personal vanilla cake recipe, smoothies, tea, and coffee. I think that it did a great job of dissolving and found that it didn’t recrystallize when the recipe was refrigerated for later.”

When a sweetener crystallizes, many crystal grains appear on the surface and may affect the tastes and definitely affects the texture and moisture content – harden and dry out a few minutes out of the oven.

Not sure which recipe to try with SugarLike? Check Autumn’s  YouTube page for her vanilla cake recipe with SugarLike.

Other ideas: sweet sauces, like BBQ and teriyaki, sweetened keto breads, muffins, cookies, and cheesecakes.

“Also, since it did a pretty good job of caramelizing in my cake recipe, I think it would be great in an actual caramel sauce, or in a keto creme brulee.”

Even more interested in trying SugarLike sweetener now?


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RKF Keto Product Score
Taste: 10/10

“WOO we have a winner here! This tasted very very close to sugar. If I had never had a sugar substitute before, I would not have known that this is different. I had my wife try it and she thought it was sugar. No cooling effect.”

this image shows a keto vanilla cake baked with SugarLike

KETO VANILLA CAKE – Butter Cake – Sour Cream Cake – Pound Cake – RECIPE WITH SUGARLIKE SWEETENER

Ingredient list:

  • Egg
  • Butter
  • Sour cream
  • Salt
  • Baking Powder
  • Vanilla extract
  • Almond Flour
  • Coconut Flour
  • SugarLike Zero Calorie Sweetener

“It definitely acts one to one LIKE sugar and I totally recommend this”


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SUGARLIKE® Sweetener Story

Here is a typical story about how our SugarLike Sweeteners are received. A food manufacturer wants to achieve sugar reduction, but will not compromise on taste.  After all, they got here by offering a fantastic product that their consumers love.

But consumers are also interested in being healthy.  There is a growing demand for sugar reduced food.

Many companies have turned to artificial sweeteners like aspartame or sucralose but problems with these ingredients are starting to be revealed.  The consumer wants only natural ingredients, now.

For sweeteners, that’s been stevia.  But stevia has quite a few problems – a strong aftertaste or bitterness, sometimes called metalic or licorice. At NutraEx, we found the secret to blending stevia with other components to mask this effect.

Every other supplier claims their product has no bitterness.  But, when we go head-to-head with market products, we win.  While other companies can only achieve 30-40% sugar reduction with stevia, we can deliver stevia based sweeteners with 50% sugar reduced, 75% sugar reduced, even completely sugar free.  The difference with our sweetener is ours really does ‘Tastes like Sugar‘.

The proof is in blind taste tests over and over again. We make several prototypes with simple ingredients and sweeten them with different formulations.  When the customer tastes them, they often can’t tell which is made with sugar and which is made with SugarLike.

We have sufficient scale to meet any manufacturer’s present and future needs.  Our proprietary, patented micro encapsulation process improves the taste profile even more, while making the product look like sugar, too.  No more dust from dry powder sweeteners on production machinery.  And this leads to even distribution in the final product.