I much prefer baked beans without added sugar. But they do need salt.
Not just because they are healthier. Mainly because they taste much better.
Same with tomato ketchup (we call it tomato sauce in Straya). Much better without added sugar.
I
like a bit of sugar in my ketchup. but agave does the trick. I avoid "sugar-free" like the plague, normally, cos that's just code for "full of weird , sweet-tasting chemicals, mostly derived from corn, and guaranteed to screw with your metabolism" I also like salt, but am perfectly fine with salt being left out. I have a great big grinder full of sea salt, afrer all. and a couple of spare salt grinders in case i mislay the main one ( i have a couple of spares of absolutely everything that's small enough to store a couple of spares for...see notes on poor visual memory in the other thread
)
Actually ready-ground table salt is yet another of those things that contains hidden corn. They throw in some constarch to make it flow more freely, would you believe? same with many varieties of sugar
It's clearly part of a conspiracy to get shot of all we sensitive types, by means slow, insidious, inescapable toxins.
Oh! and same withready-ground spices. That
probably accounts for most of my esrtwhile reactions to spices. I'm cautiously reintroducing them little by little, but, as someone who's exceedingly nervous of electrical grinders (and has no room in my present-day tiny kitchen for addirional equipment anyway) , that's quite a...umm... grind.
