Sweet Freaks: drinks edition (Miracle Berry Sugarless Recipes Book 1)

Rumor in the bat cave has it that sugar is the vice sending us all straight to Hell. The average vampire bat isn’t too concerned, but the fruit bats, with their love of sugary excess, are having a veritable glucose attack.

Diabetes, heart attack, obesity, the World Health Organization warns that if we hope to avoid the worst, our sugar consumption must be drastically cut, and by cut they mean amputate.

At the thought of it, did your world turn upside down? Did the blood rush to your head? Did you drop like a syrup-gorged bat from the ceiling?

Hello my fellow sweet freak! Don’t mind the fall, the floor here is lined in marshmallows, and chocolate candy, and vanilla pudding, and ice cream sundaes. And while they all taste like cotton candy dipped in donut glaze, not one gram of sugar has been added.

Battiest thing you’ve ever heard? Probably. But this isn’t madness, it’s a miracle. Ok, it’s really a miracle berry, specifically the Synsepalum Dulcificum. The miracle berry can turn foods and beverages blindingly sweet, yet it contains no measurable calories and no associated glucose spike. Alright, let’s concede: that is pretty close to a miracle. At least for us Sweet Freaks.

In the Sweet Freaks Drinks Edition, we’ll explore the saccharine tricks of the miracle berry and have you drinking unsweetened cranberry juice by the end of the week. Ludicrous? Well it would be without the miracle berry, but with the berry, it will be so ridiculously sweet you’ll trust us when we say, “Try the lemon-raspberry next.”

Teas, fruit juices, colas, sodas, ice cream, smoothies, and milkshakes are some of the drinks we’ll turn sugarless, but we swear—hand over our batty little hearts—they will not be lacking for sweetness.

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