12 Sugars Ranked by Health Effect

A look at 12 widely available and commonly used sweeteners ranked using an equation that takes into account health properties such as glycemic index and antioxidant content. All with a dive into fructose's effects.
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Main Antioxidant Study:

2nd Antioxidant Study on Cane Sugars:

How Glycemic Index Works:

Refined Fructose Liver Mechanism 1:

Refined Fructose Liver Mechanism 2:

2015 Paper on HFCS and Young People (LDL):

Fructose 50g per Day Doesn't Raise Triglycerides:

Oxidation of Fructose:

Coconut Sugar Inulin:

Coconut Sugar Amylase Inhibitor:

Date Sugar:

General Date Study:

Intro/Outro Song: Sedução Momentânea by Roulet:

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[alfonsodlt]

Hey Mic! You should do one ranking the healthiest whole grains or legumes.

[yibuseato]

Best
💚1)Date sugar (80)
💚2) Blackstrap Molasses unsulphured (80)
💛3)Coconut sugar (56)
💛4)Brown unrefined cane sugar(54)
🧡5)Maple syrup (48)
❤️6)Apple Fruit Juice (46)
❤️7)Brown sugar (39)
❤️8)Agave hector (39)
Worst

[Frodojack]

I really appreciate these list and comparison videos. I would like to see a comparison of non-sugar sweeteners. A comparison of plant-based burgers would be great too.

[DespondentDragon]

Yes, please on the sugar-free sweeteners. I saw another person suggest grains and legumes, I agree. Fruits and vegetables would be awesome, too. Pretty much any video you do is though 😊

[phorayz]

1. Date Sugar
2. Blackstrap Molasses
3. Coconut Sugar
4. Unrefined Cane Sugar
5. Maple Syrup
6. Fruit Juice
7. Brown Sugar
8. Agave Nectar
9. White sugar
10. High Fructose Corn Syrup
11. Corn Syrup
12. Brown Rice Syrup

[alosplanetas]

I would love to see a video on zero-calorie sweeteners, especially how artificial ones stack up to stevia and some of the sweeteners in this video. Great list, thank you!

[TheChaotiCake]

Yes, please make a sugar-free sweetener list!!! I love these videos, and I'm very curious about sugar alternatives. The more of these lists, the better!

[snapshot]

Please do a video on other sweeteners. I’m vegan and really enjoy baking. I like to go as natural as possible. I heard Monkfruit is really good, so would like to see results of its . Thanks for sharing!

[updem]

A good use for black strap molasses is to add it to your plant based meat mixture, it gives it that irony taste that you get from red meat

[cillacam]

Yeah I would love to see a whole other video on ranking things like monkfruit, stevia, xylitol etc.

[deepakhiranandani]

Another good video thanks. Here in India the term jaggery (Indian English I suppose, like brinjals and ladyfinger for eggplant and okra) and the product itself, 'gur' in Hindi (rhyming with put as in 'put it down') is much used; I think it's what the video refers to as unrefined cane sugar, no. 4. It's made by heating sugarcane juice and is seen as lumps or chunks or blocks or tapering cylinders, a dull yellow or brown. I think, Mic, checking out pictures of it on google etc. may interest you. A similar product made from coconut sap, usually darker in colour, is here known as palm jaggery. Again available in solid chunks etc. No. 3 in your ranking. Both types could be found crushed but nearly always are sold as solid chunks, blocks etc.

The book 'Sweet poison' by David Gillespie which I read several years ago explains sugar especially fructose very well. Another book, thr older, 'The Sugar Fix - the High Fructose Fall-Out That Is Making You Fat and Sick' by Richard Johnson MD is very good too.

Thanks again. The video does reconfirm, with analysis and figures, the fairly common idea that date sugar, blackstrap molasses and unrefined palm & cane sugar/jaggery are the relatively less harmful or relatively preferable sugars. About agave nectar and to an extent rice derived syrup the video was an eye opener. For myself - being Happily Vegan Since 2000, and now mostly Whole Food - I find plain fresh fruit the best sweet thing to consume, with some dried fruit (prunes every day, high ORAC score) and occasional or rare lapses into real (vegan) dark chocolate or other conventional vegan sugary sweet. Am not into gur which many people consume in small quantities every day as a health food: it's unrefined but still a highly concentrated form of sugar.

Thanks again, great going, I never miss your videos.

[ondrejhronec]

I'd love to see a study on a date syrup. I love it's taste but I believe it'll be less healthy as it's in a liquid form.

[Uppity]

Great analysis! Love the humor along w knowledge in the delivery of this video. Excellent job 🙂.

[TuningTheAtom]

Oat milk, black strap molasses and cinnamon warmed- got me over coffee with milk and sugar in the mornings. Delicious with just the right bitter/sweet combo.

[heatherd]

Yes please to a video on sweeteners too! My hubby is a type 1 dibetec and that info would be very helpful. You're better at doing research than I am!

[nmf]

Please review non sugar sweeteners. I'm trying to lower my sugar intake and I've been using stevia and monkfruit with erythritol in place of sugar. Thank you.

[dj-feck]

Dates are excellent. I can eat up to 1.5-2 pounds of dates in one meal on some days.

[davidthescottishvegan]

Another great video Mic the vegan. I try to eat whole plant foods and not too much refined sugar/sweeteners. It was a very interesting and informative video as all Mic's video's are.

[teresathomas]

Hi Mic - on the east coast of Canada (Nova Scotia) we have two super common old school recipes that call for a decent amount of molasses - 1. Baked beans and 2. Brown bread. Usually these are eaten together for the one two punch, although only 1/4c per 1lb of dried beans and 1/2c in the loaf. Delish.

[fatcat]

Thanks Mike for the great work here. Going to make a couple updates to my food choices.