What can I sub for granulated Brown Sugar?

[Seabie]

I am going over some SAD holiday recipes and I have several that need granulated Brown Sugar. If I sub maple or agave it will give it a sticky texture. Is there something granulated that would be like Brown Sugar?

[raweater]

I am going over some SAD holiday recipes and I have several that need granulated Brown Sugar. If I sub maple or agave it will give it a sticky texture. Is there something granulated that would be like Brown Sugar?

Maple syrup is as bad a brown sugar so it would not be any healthier and may risk ruining the recipe. This is a cooked recipe right? Agave would be slightly better but cooking it will probably turn it nearly as bad as maple syrup or brown sugar. If it's cooked, I'd stick with brown sugar, it's not going ot be healthy anyway if it's cooked.

[Seabie]

Thank you for that information. I wasn't aware that maple syrup was bad.

[Clare]

The taste of brown sugar comes from molasses. Like maple syrup, molasses is cooked. If you don't care you can add a drop for flavor to other sweetener. I try to use stevia for some of the sweetness to save $ on raw honey. I do that because I still have a lot of organic molasses that i've had for years. But I don't plan to buy it again...

[Seabie]

Good information to know! I have several recipes from other raw sites and a raw cookbook that one of the ingredients is maple syrup. I find that Stevia has a bitter after taste. I haven't located Date Sugar locally. Guess it's just best to leave the recipes with the brown sugar as it is.

[Apasaraw]

I enjoy raw agave syrup...has that brown sugar vibe in the taste. Only 3 glycemic load too!

[rawererin]

Rapadura, maple sugar, maple syrup, muscovado, date sugar...

[beckx]

are you trying to make raw versions of SAD recipes or sub better ingredients in cooked recipes?

if you're making the recipe raw you might be able to add a liquid sweetner or dates and it would balance out the omission of eggs/milk in the recipe and not actually make it overly sticky... you can always add nut or oat flour if your dough is too sticky. any raw cookie recipe i've ever made has come out the texture of cookie dough before dehydrating, just takes a little bit of tweaking.

[raweater]

Rapadura, maple sugar, maple syrup, muscovado, date sugar...

Those aren't any less dangerous than refined white sugar which most experts agree is more dangerous than smoking. I'm not sure you're aware of the dangers of these sweeteners and noticed you use some in some of your "raw" recipes. I personally think adding a more dangerous than smoking ingredient to raw recipes is rather absurd. Why not use agave? It is far, far less damaging to health.

[Seabie]

I am sure it's probably not raw but I tried a sweetener that was made from chicory root. Once it is in something it actually taste just like sugar without a bitter after taste. I was looking for something that I could use in place of regular white sugar in SAD recipes for my family that do not eat raw. I got it at the health food store. The holistic doctor I met with told me she would rather people avoid sweeteners all together but for occasional use as special treat it would be ok to use agave, the chicory root sweetener, stevia or honey.

[GlimR]

If I was making a cooked food for my family I'd use the Rapadura or date sugar.

[Ginger]

Lacanto tastes like brown sugar and is zero glycemic, from the Body Ecology Diet.