Healthy Homemade Sugar Free Orange Syrup
This Healthy Homemade Sugar Free Orange Syrup has all the flavor of fresh oranges but in liquid form! This all natural, low calorie syrup contains no high-fructose corn syrup, no granulated sugar and no artificial food coloring… just pure orangey goodness.
This syrup is perfect swirled into yogurt, blended into a Carrot Cake Milkshake, drizzled over a creamy Vanilla Frozen Yogurt, and so much more.
I’m not the biggest fan of eating fresh oranges (they’re annoyingly messy) but I love this Sugar Free Orange Syrup. I’ve made this syrup three times in the last two months. Every time I make a batch I like to lick any syrup remnants I can find on the blender or spatula. All I thought was, “Ohmigoodness this tastes like candy. A liquefied orange candy!” (I love love love being the quality assurance worker in my kitchen) Super sweet of course, not meant to be eaten by itself, but WOW the flavor is absolutely delicious.
Healthy Homemade Sugar Free Orange Syrup
Ingredients
- 2½ cups Water
- 1 tbs Orange Flavor
- 1 tsp Liquid Stevia Extract
- 10 drops Lemon Flavor
- Natural Yellow Food Coloring (or try Ground Turmeric)
- ½ tsp Xanthan Gum
- ⅛ tsp Salt
Instructions
- In a blender, add the water, orange flavor, stevia extract, lemon flavor, and natural food coloring. Blend until smooth.
- In a tiny bowl, whisk together the xanthan gum and salt. While blending, slowly add this to the blender (don't dump it in all at once, otherwise it'll clump).
- Pour into pretty serving jars, seal tightly, and refrigerate to store. Keeps for about 2-3 weeks.
As a comparison, here is the nutrition label for Torani’s Orange Syrup. I think it’s quite obvious that my syrup is better. Torani’s nutrition label is literally pure sugar… not the healthiest option when it comes to adding some sweetness to your life.
Now that we’ve seen the (spectacular!) ingredient list, let’s compare it to Torani’s ingredient list:
Pure Cane Sugar, Water, Natural Flavors, Sodium Benzoate (preservative), Citric Acid, Potassium Sorbate (preservative), FD&C Yellow #6 (food dye).
YUM!! (← That was sarcasm.)
To sum it up, basically: sugar, preservatives + artificial food coloring.
YUCK. (← That wasn’t sarcasm.)
One thing I really like about this recipe is that it doesn’t require any cooking. Whenever I make syrups or caramels on the stove, I have the worst luck and it always ends up boiling over. Thankfully, with this recipe, you/I don’t need to worry ’bout that.
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With love and good eats,
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– Jess
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Indulge − no strings attached!
food coloring, flavors, extracts??? how dare you call it healthy?
If you take a closer look at the recipe, everything is NATURAL. The food coloring is natural, not synthetic (no Red Dye #40 here!), the flavors are natural, not artificial, and the extracts? Those are natural too. Extracts are not unhealthy.
Especially in comparison to storebought syrups, I would consider this recipe very healthy 😀
-Jess
Gosh, how DARE you. 😛
I bet this would make a wonderful kind of orange soda syrup!
THAT’S A GENIUS IDEA!! I’m sure it would go great along with some seltzer water 😀
-Jess
YUM this looks awesome! Way healthier than the syrups available at the supermarket. Yummy!
Oh my goodness! Girl you’re brilliant! Would appreciate some more vegan recipes! 🙂
could I use this in an orange chicken recipe? In that I would bake it as a sauce instead of using orange juice?
Hmmm I haven’t tried that! Now I’m wondering if that works too because ORANGE CHICKEN IS AMAZING!!! 😀
I guess it’s worth a try? Crossing my fingers it works 🙂
-Jess
Making this tonight!!