Gymnema, a lead botanical in Immority EvenOn, briefly dulls the tongue’s sweet receptors, and in a human study of gymnema mints, daily sugary drinks fell 42% after 14 days (Hsiao et al., 2025).
Sweet things are everywhere in Malaysia: teh tarik at the mamak, kuih at every meeting, a cold sirap on a hot afternoon. Cravings are rarely about willpower alone; they come from blood-sugar swings and habits, and both can be changed. Whether you search for sugar cravings or 戒糖, the steps below are the same.
Immority EvenOn is a blood sugar balance drink from Immority, a Wellous brand. One 5 g sachet a day, stirred into water with your main meal, gives you 11 botanicals led by gymnema (25% gymnemic acid) and mulberry leaf (5% DNJ). It is halal (JAKIM) and classified as a food product by Malaysia’s NPRA.
See also: Gymnema Sylvestre for Sugar Cravings: How It Works (Malaysia 2026)
Why do you crave sugar?
Sugar cravings tend to come from four places: blood-sugar swings after high-carb meals, habit, poor sleep and stress. After a big plate of white rice, noodles or roti canai, blood sugar can climb fast and then dip. That dip often shows up as a heavy, sleepy feeling after lunch and a sudden wish for something sweet. Habit adds to it: if you always have teh tarik at 4 pm or kuih with your kopi, your body learns to expect sugar at that hour. Short or broken sleep makes the next day’s cravings harder to resist, and stress pushes you towards the quickest comfort on offer, which is usually sweet. None of this is a character flaw. Each driver can be changed, and the steps below work on them one by one.
How do you stop sugar cravings, step by step?
Change one thing at a time, starting with drinks, and let each change settle before you add the next.
- Go kurang manis, then kosong. Sugary drinks such as teh tarik, sirap and kopi with condensed milk are the easiest sugar to cut. Order kurang manis for a while, then try kosong.
- Eat protein and vegetables first. At nasi campur, start with the vegetables and the egg, fish or chicken, and ask for less rice (‘nasi sikit’).
- Walk after meals. A short walk after lunch or dinner, around the office or your taman, keeps you moving at the time the slump usually hits.
- Protect your sleep. A regular bedtime makes the next afternoon easier.
- Drink water first. Keep a bottle on your desk or in the car, and have a glass before you decide on a sweet drink.
- Plan your snacks. The 4 pm dip is predictable, so plan for it: a handful of nuts, a boiled egg or a piece of fruit.
- Read the label. Check ‘total sugars’ on packet drinks, 3-in-1 sachets, cereals and biscuits; drinks sold as healthy can still be sweet.
- Name the trigger. When a craving hits, ask whether you are hungry, tired, stressed or simply used to sugar at that hour, then deal with that.
- Make sweetness pull less. Gymnema briefly dulls sweet taste; EvenOn gives you gymnema in one sachet with your main meal.
How does gymnema help with sugar cravings?
Gymnema works on taste. Its gymnemic acids briefly dull the sweet receptors on your tongue, T1R2 and T1R3, which cuts cravings at the source.
In a human study, people who eat a lot of sugar took gymnema mints. After 14 days, their daily intake of sugary drinks was 42% lower, and their liking for chocolate, along with the wish to eat more of it, went down (Hsiao et al., 2025).
Gymnema also works past the tongue. It supports insulin release from the beta cells, and in a 90-day human study of gymnema extract in adults with type 2 diabetes, 2-hour after-meal sugar was 22% lower (Kumar et al., 2010). Both studies tested gymnema, not EvenOn.
Where does EvenOn fit in a plan to cut sugar?
As one step, not the whole plan. You stir one 5 g sachet into 100 to 150 ml of room-temperature water and drink it with the day’s highest-carb main meal, at the same meal every day.
One a day is enough; up to 2 if needed, never more than 2. Each sachet has 16 kcal and 0.3 g total sugars, with a light green-apple taste. EvenOn’s plan expects sweet cravings to ease in days 1 to 30, and by days 31 to 60, eating less sugar no longer takes willpower; results vary.
It is not a licence to eat as much sugar as you like: EvenOn gives you more freedom with food within a varied, balanced diet and sensible portions. To see whether your effort shows in your blood, watch your HbA1c; our guide to the HbA1c normal range and how to lower it in 90 days explains the numbers. New to the product? Read what Immority EvenOn is and who it is for. It is launching soon in Malaysia, and the price is announced at launch.
When are sugar cravings a warning sign?
When they come with constant thirst, passing urine often and feeling hungry again soon after eating, get your blood sugar checked.
Other signs of high blood sugar include tiredness, blurred vision, slow-healing wounds, weight loss without trying, numb or tingling hands and feet, dark velvety skin on the neck and skin tags. Many people have no signs at all. In the National Health and Morbidity Survey 2023, 15.6% of Malaysian adults had diabetes, and about 2 in 5 adults with diabetes did not know it. A fasting blood test or an HbA1c test at your klinik kesihatan or GP gives you a clear answer.
One more case: if you take insulin or tablets such as gliclazide, a sudden strong craving with shaking, sweating, a fast heartbeat or confusion can be low blood sugar. Check your sugar and follow the plan your doctor gave you. If you start EvenOn while on diabetes medicine, keep taking your medicine as prescribed, never stop or change it on your own, check your sugar more often in the first weeks, because your readings may come down, and tell your doctor.
