Are Vegan Sweets healthy? Well, I would love to say yes! But the reality is that ... it depends! You can get many healthy vegan sweets, but you can also get vegan sweets that are not "healthier" than traditional non-vegan sweets. It really depends on the ingredients, and there is no general answer. However, my view is that if you only use the best ingredients, ideally organic, such a treat would be healthier than a non-vegan organic treat, due to the negative side-effects of, for example, milk.
Many vegans, according to my experience, are concerned about their health and they therefore take care of what they eat and they generally check the ingredients before they eat something. Vegans who genuinely are concerned about their health probably would not buy so many vegan chocolates or vegan gummy bears or vegan cakes from the supermarket. They would either make the sweets themselves and really use only the best ingredients, which then could lead to a very healthy treat! Instead of sugar, for example, they might use xylitol, date syrup or yacon syrup. They might even use whole dates instead of just date syrup and use these as sweetener. If these health conscious vegans make ice cream they might use frozen berries, organic plant-based yoghurt and sweeten it with, again, xylitol or yacon syrup. This is definitely quite healthy! You don´t need to make everything yourself, though. There are some sweets available to buy which use sugar supplements that have no negative side effects (Xylitol is such an alternative - however, it is dangerous for pets). There are also "raw" sweets available or such sweets that are organic and don´t use any artificial colours or so. These are definitely "healthier" than traditional sweets.
However, I would not say that vegan chocolate, for example, is necessarily "healthier" than traditional milk chocolate. If it is organic, I would say it´s definitely healthier, but then there are also non-vegan organic chocolates. If you look for healthy treats, it is definitely worth to go for products that use only the best ingredients and are organic.
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