Sugar, cake

[teamsaint]

They're both sugars! A teaspoon of honey contains 23 calories and 6g of sugar, compared with a level teaspoon of sugar, which contains 16 calories and 4g of sugar – although honey is sweeter so you need to add less to get a sweet taste. Honey also contains trace elements, so overall it's a healthier option. And, as ferney says, useful as a standby for burns or infections (very good for sore throats mixed with a tot of whisky as well)!

As to lo-fat foods, yogurts in particular, they have various sweetening agents but generally the various sugars like fructose, sucralose but also Aspertame and Ace K which is not good news for those concerned about the effects of artificial sweeteners.

Good points all.
Aspartame, under various trade names, is everywhere. tesco do not sell any lemonade which doesn't contain it.
Waitrose sell some, but not all ,without aspartame. In both supermarkets this includes normal sugar based brands, which have added aspartame.

Yuck.

[mercia]

if Mary Berry's main diet is cake she looks quite well on it

[ahinton]

if Mary Berry's main diet is cake she looks quite well on it

It's the berries and not the cake that give her that healthy appearance; as I observed a while ago,
Loganberries are so rare
But Mary Berry's everywhere.

Ah, loganberries; that's the stuff!

[jayne lee wilson]

Losing my sweet tooth has been a delightfully unexpected feature of my middleage. I never go near sweets and cakes, only revisit chocolate or icecream occasionally (and usually regret it).
I'd call myself a garlic-and-wine person now, if it weren't for the awkward fact that (as Geena Davis almost said to Jeff Goldblum in The Fly), I like a little coffee with my sugar...

But then there's... Sweet Chilli Sauce...Teriyaki, Sweet Onion and Hoisin...
Horseradish, Bramley and Tartare...

Sauces are the honey-trap...the tongue-porn of succulence...

[Bryn]

I have had an annoyingly persistent chesty cough of late. On Sunday, having had a particularly disturbed night, I phoned in sick and went to see the pharmacist at the local Tesco. He assured me that he was sure it was not connected with the statins I had recently been started on, and recommended I take Robitussin to help break up the mucous. I, ahem, coughed up the £3+ for 100ml of same. When I got home I checked the ingredients, mainly to see of I could find a cheaper generic product. To my surprise, among those ingredients was Sodium Cyclamate!. Banned in the U.S.A. as potentially carcinogenic, but freely licenced here in the EU. On Monday I popped into Poundland and picked up a 100ml bottle of the Bells version; same active content (Guaifenesin) but with glucose and Sodium Saccharin, rather than cyclamate, to counter the taste of the Guaifenesin. I'd rather take my chances with a dash of glucose and saccharine than cyclamate, thanks.

[Ferretfancy]

A small digression, why does nearly all the food photographed in recipes in the colour mags end up looking like landfill?

[Nick Armstrong]

Greetings from a place where they do cakes rather well.....

Get yer Paris-Brest and yer Religieuses 'ere !!!!