Hot, delicious, savoury or sweet: you can enjoy porridge in many different varieties as a sugar-free breakfast.
We love porridge with no added sugar and natural sweetness, which keeps you full for longer, is easy to digest, healthy and tastes great.
Dried fruit is a valuable and nutritious ingredient that we like to add to our porridge. Since the fruit has been dehydrated, it tastes particularly sweet and provides a high fibre content.
Other health-promoting ingredients such as minerals and vitamins are still largely retained. Our favourites include dried dates, but also figs, apple pieces, sultanas or apricots.
Porridge Basic Recipe
Find out how you can refine your porridge recipe and your porridge without sugar substitutes using natural sweetness – with dried fruit, plant-based syrup or other sugar alternatives – here.
Why is porridge healthier without conventional sugar?
Conventional refined sugars can be quickly absorbed into the bloodstream, causing blood sugar levels to rise rapidly. This is why they are useful in moments when we need energy and calories quickly.
However, the level of usable energy drops just as quickly, and the unusable energy puts unnecessary strain on the body. Soon, we need another energy boost.
With healthy fibres, minerals, proteins and fats, your digestion will continue to function properly because valuable nutrients and calories can be absorbed. This is why you feel full for longer.
You can prepare porridge without sugar and still make it sweet. Fruity-sweet natural ingredients not only offer a healthy alternative to conventional sugars.
They also provide you with valuable and easily digestible nutrients that you can add to your porridge.
If you want to spare your body unnecessary strain, a porridge without a lot of sugar is of course beneficial. There are plenty of sugar-free yet sweet alternatives.
Porridge with no added sugar – find out more
What are the alternatives to refined sugar?
The most obvious alternative to refined sugar would be raw cane sugar. This is not exactly healthier to a relevant extent, but it does contain more minerals and vitamins than industrial sugar.
It also has a fine taste of its own, usually of caramel and molasses.
Honey is definitely a healthy alternative for your porridge without conventional sugar. Provided it is organic honey, in which minerals and vitamins are retained. The same applies to maple syrup.
Agave syrup is also relatively low in calories and particularly sweet. However, it is unsuitable for people with fructose intolerance because it contains a high proportion of fructose.
Erythritol (sugar alcohol) is also obtained naturally from corn or mushrooms. It contains almost no calories, as does birch sugar (sugar alcohol), which is produced from wood.
Dates and other dried fruits are a healthy alternative to sugar and provide a good nutritional balance.
Their positive effect on the body is undisputed due to their valuable ingredients and they give your porridge a natural sweetness without added sugar.
They do contain some calories, but a little less than honey.
Ripe bananas in your porridge
Ripe bananas are a sweet source of energy that you can add to your sugar-free porridge.
They are easy to digest and contain lots of vitamins, minerals, fibre and antioxidants.
They are rich in potassium, which is essential for muscles, nerves and the heart. The vitamin B6 contained in bananas plays a special role in protein metabolism.
That's why they are a popular snack among athletes.
Dried fruit as a natural sweetener
If you don't have any fresh fruit to hand for your porridge with no added sugar, dried fruit is a healthy alternative.
Since it contains hardly any water, its flavour and sweetness are particularly concentrated. You still benefit from all of its nutrients and fibre.
All types of dried fruit retain the flavour of their original form. Dried pears taste like pears, dried figs like figs.
Dates are the most neutral in flavour, making them a popular ingredient for our porridge without refined sugar.
Fresh berries for your sugar-free porridge
A feast for the eyes. That's why we particularly love fresh berries in our sugar-free porridge.
Blueberries, red strawberries and raspberries are a real feast for the eyes and this tip makes it easy for us to enjoy sugar-free breakfast.
Sugar-free porridge with natural sweetness from VERIVAL
Porridge can be prepared in many different ways. So you are sure to find a porridge recipe to suit your personal taste that contains natural sweetness.
We like to vary our sugar-free porridge: sometimes with fruity-fresh berries, sweet mangoes, nutritious dates, exotic coconut or the superfood chia seeds, or with savoury vegetable variations.
Of course, it can still be sweet. That's why we love dried fruit in our porridge without industrial sugar and sometimes an extra dash of sugar alternatives such as organic blossom honey, whole cane sugar, maple or agave syrup.
Whether you want to make your porridge yourself or prepare it less elaborately with a selection of high-quality ingredients,
At VERIVAL you will find a wide selection of porridge with no added sugar as well as healthy sugar alternatives in organic quality that do your body good instead of harming it.
You get extra valuable fibre, minerals and vitamins and can enjoy your porridge sugar-free.
