Halloween Treats and Kids: The Scariest Part is the Sugar. SweetLeaf® provides ideas for sweet treats that are fun to make and better for children
GILBERT, AZ. (October 5, 2021) – As Halloween approaches, it’s easy to forget the potentially harmful effects which excessive consumption of sugar-laden foods and beverages can have on youngsters.
While most know that excess dietary sugars aren’t good for kids, it’s difficult to discourage youngsters from wanting sweet Halloween treats. Happily, SweetLeaf® provides some tasty alternatives which kids will enjoy making and eating.
For those that think a few candy bars once a year aren’t too harmful to a child’s health, here’s a shocking fact that may put trick-or-treating in perspective: The American Heart Association suggests that children age 2-18 should only consume 100 calories of sugar per day; yet, according to Fortune magazine, the average trick-or-treating kid can consume around three cups of sugar — or about 7,000 calories — on Halloween. Seven-thousand calories is the same as 13 Big Macs. Scary!
To help kids join in the fun of eating sweet treats on Halloween, while keeping sugar intake to a minimum, SweetLeaf has posted great holiday-themed recipes that kids can even help make. Many, like Spooky Cookies, and the recipes shown below, include instructional videos. While Spooky Cookies may look scary, with one gram of sugar per cookie, they’re far less frightening than other Halloween treats.
By using plant-based SweetLeaf Stevia Sweetener, SweetLeaf Liquid Stevia Sweet Drops®, SweetLeaf Better than Sugar!®, and SweetLeaf Monk Fruit sweeteners, parents and kids can make any number of low-to-no sugar cookie and candy treats like Sweet Drops Truffles, SweetLeaf Peanut Butter Cups, Black and White Brownies, or Sugar-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies.
SweetLeaf can be found in some truly scrumptious snack and dessert recipes that children will love. It’s simple to substitute sugar with SweetLeaf using the handy SweetLeaf Stevia Conversion Chart or the interactive SweetLeaf Stevia Conversion Calculator, both of which will quickly and easily convert the amount of sugar in a recipe into the correct amount of zero calorie/carb, non glycemic response, delicious SweetLeaf.
With several excessive sugar- and calorie-packed holidays coming in the next few months, there’s no time like the present to start reducing excessive sugars by incorporating SweetLeaf in all foods, beverages, and recipes.
Purchasing SweetLeaf Sweetener and SweetLeaf Organic Monk Fruit Sweetener products couldn’t be easier. SweetLeaf’s website has a handy store finder, which lists retailers selling SweetLeaf. Additionally, SweetLeaf makes it easy to shop online from the company’s website, SweetLeaf.com.
WISDOM NATURAL BRANDS®, maker of SweetLeaf® Sweetener and SweetLeaf® Organic Monk Fruit Sweeteners
Wisdom Natural Brands, based in Gilbert, Ariz., has been the leading Stevia expert and industry pioneer with its plant-based SweetLeaf® Sweetener brand for 38 years. SweetLeaf is the only Stevia brand winning 37 awards for taste and innovation. SweetLeaf Organic Monk Fruit is available in granular, packets, squeezable, and liquid drops, totaling 18 products.
SweetLeaf Sweeteners have zero calories, zero sugars, a non-glycemic response, and no artificial ingredients. SweetLeaf Stevia is sold in boxes containing 35 or 70 packets and shaker jars (organic or natural) for easy home use. SweetLeaf Liquid Stevia Sweet Drops® add flavor without calories, zero sugars, or artificial sweeteners to foods, beverages, and recipes. Organic Sweet Drops are available in three popular flavors: English Toffee, Vanilla Crème, and SteviaClear®. SweetLeaf Stevia Water Drops® add delicious flavor to still or sparkling water. New Better than Sugar!® powdered and granular, natural and organic, is a sugar replacement measuring 1:1 like sugar—with zero calories, carbs and zero sugars.
SweetLeaf Zero-Sugar Stevia Syrup, in three popular flavors, brings the incredible sweetness of stevia and monk fruit, with only 70 calories per serving. Wisdom introduced herbal blends made from Yerba Maté through its Wisdom of the Ancients® brand, one of the most respected herbal lines in the natural industry. Wisdom of the Ancients herbal blends are available in bags and loose leaves and come in a variety of beneficial flavors. And new zero-sugar, zero-calorie Yerba Maté Energy Shots, available in regular and orange flavors, provide energy with 200 nutrients and 100% naturally occurring caffeine. SweetLeaf Sweeteners and Wisdom of the Ancients’ products are available at: Shop.SweetLeaf.com, health food stores, natural groceries, supermarkets, and online retailers.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
