Everyday Tips for Healthy Living: Serve Desserts with Meals, Not After

Strawberry-Apple Kanten

If you’re like most people, desserts are treated as the “grand finale”. Serving lighter, less sweet desserts right alongside the main course re-programs us to de-emphasize desserts instead of treating them as the part of a meal that everyone’s been waiting for. This way, the sweet taste can be used as they do in the East; to balance bitter, sour and salty flavors, rather than as a smorgasbord of sweet, sweet and more sweet all at the very end.

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From a nutrition perspective, eat sweets with lunch instead of dinner, when digestive fire is stronger and the carbohydrate can be burned throughout the afternoon.

Try these healthy dessert recipes

Strawberry-Apple Kanten
Fruit Cup with Almond Butter Cream

Food photo by Jackson D. Carson