If food tastes too sweet

If some foods taste too sweet, use these suggestions to tone down the sweetness.

• Add a little salt or lemon juice.
• Add plain yogurt, buttermilk, instant coffee powder or extra milk to milkshakes, instant beverage mixes or commercially prepared nutritional drinks.
• Add nuts or fresh fruit to ice cream.
• Add butter, margarine, peanut butter or other nut butter to cooked cereal, toast and pancakes if syrup, jam or sugar taste too sweet.

Try foods that are less sweet:

• Drink beverages such as diluted fruit juice, milk, buttermilk, lemonade, ginger ale or sports drinks.
• Choose desserts and snacks that aren't as sweet, such as yogurt, custard, pumpkin pie, fruit, baked fruit, fruit with cottage cheese, fruit crumble, plain doughnuts or graham crackers.
• In place of sweet snacks, choose tart, salty or spicy snacks. These might include cottage cheese, cheese, peanut butter, deviled eggs, crackers, chips, nuts or fruit.