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The sugar-free diet appears in a variety of different strengths. It is important to ascertain from the person you are cooking for what sort of sugars should be excluded. These are four main types of sugar sucrose, glucose, fructose and lactose. Sucrose and glucose are generally the 'added sugar' variety in manufactured foods, fructose is present in fruit, and lactose is present in milk. Those on a Candida Albicans diet may not be able to tolerate any sweetness - check in advance.
BE WARY OF Baked beans, cakes, cane sugar, chocolate, demerara sugar, dextrose, fructose (fruit sugar), galactose, glucose, ketchup, lactose, laevulose, mannitose, mayonnaise, muscovado sugar, pastries, puddings, prepackaged foods, processed foods, raw cane sugar, salad dressings, stocks and stock cubes, sucrose, sweet fizzy drinks, and sweets.
Candida Albicans is a gut fungus, naturally present which lives in everyone's body. Under certain conditions it can become completely overgrown and this is believed to cause various side effects. Candidiasis is kept under control with a combination of prescription drugs and diet.
For guests with Candidiasis follow, wheat-free, sugar-free, dairy-free and yeast-free amendments. You will have to be very careful to watch the sugar if this is new to you, as it is not added sugar, but anything with sugar in it. Anything that tastes sweet must be left out, so even fresh fruit, although you may find lemon, lime and white grapefruit juice is permitted.
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