Gymnema, a lead botanical in Immority EvenOn, briefly dulls the tongue’s sweet receptors, and in a human study of gymnema mints, sugary-drink intake fell 42% in 14 days (Hsiao et al., 2025).
In Singapore, sugar cravings rarely come out of nowhere. They follow the day: kopi with condensed milk at breakfast, a big plate of noodles at lunch, the mid-afternoon bubble tea run and dessert after a late dinner. Willpower alone tends to lose against that rhythm, so this guide works on the rhythm itself: why cravings happen, steps that fit hawker-centre life, and where a gymnema drink with your main meal can help.
Immority EvenOn is a blood sugar balance drink from Immority. 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, where it is made.
See also: What is Immority EvenOn? The complete Singapore guide
Why do sugar cravings happen?
Mostly because your blood sugar swings. A meal heavy in refined carbs sends sugar up fast, and when it falls back your body asks for quick energy, which sweet food supplies fastest.
Hawker rice and noodles, kopi with sugar and bubble tea: refined carbs add up fast, and each spike and dip sets up the next craving. Habit adds to it: a sweet drink at the same time every day teaches your brain to expect one. Short sleep and stress make sweets harder to resist, and long gaps between meals leave you ravenous. Feeling hungry again soon after eating, or sleepy after meals, can be a sign that your meals are swinging your sugar.
How do you stop sugar cravings day to day?
Work on the swings, not just the sweets. These steps fit a Singapore day:
- Step your drinks down. Order kopi or teh siew dai for a few weeks, then kosong. At the bubble tea counter, pick the lowest sugar level and the smaller cup, and save it for weekends.
- Make water the default. Singapore’s ACE Clinical Guideline on pre-diabetes (Ministry of Health) recommends water instead of sugar-sweetened drinks; a bottle on your desk makes it the easy choice.
- Build the plate. The same guideline suggests half vegetables with a small portion of fruit, a quarter lean protein and a quarter whole grains. At the economy rice stall: two vegetables, one lean meat, less rice, brown rice if they have it.
- Eat vegetables and protein first. Leave the rice or noodles for last, so they become the smaller part of the meal.
- Do not skip meals. A missed lunch tends to become an afternoon raid on the vending machine.
- Walk after meals. A short walk after lunch or dinner puts some of that meal’s sugar to work. Aim for at least 150 minutes of moderate activity such as brisk walking a week, without more than two days in a row off (ACE).
- Protect your sleep. Tiredness makes sweet food harder to resist, so a regular bedtime is part of the plan.
- Plan the snack. If the afternoon is your weak spot, keep fruit, a small handful of nuts or plain yoghurt ready.
- Read the label. Check the total sugars line on drinks and snacks before you buy.
Does gymnema help stop sugar cravings?
Yes. Gymnema sylvestre works on the tongue itself: its gymnemic acid briefly dulls the sweet receptors T1R2 and T1R3, so sweet food and drinks pull at you less.
In a human study of gymnema mints in people who eat a lot of sugar, daily intake of sugary drinks was 42% lower after 14 days, and both liking for chocolate and the wish to keep eating it went down (Hsiao et al., 2025). Read more in our guide to gymnema sylvestre.
Where does EvenOn fit in a plan to cut sugar?
EvenOn is one step in the plan, taken with the meal that matters most. One 5 g sachet a day, stirred into 100 to 150 ml of room-temperature water with your highest-carb meal, gives you gymnema to dull the sweet pull and mulberry leaf to slow how starch turns into sugar, so after-meal spikes stay low. EvenOn’s 90-day plan sets out what to expect, and results vary: in days 1 to 30, sweet cravings ease and you feel steadier and less drowsy after meals; in days 31 to 60, eating less sugar no longer takes willpower. The nutrition panel lists 16 kcal and 0.3 g total sugars a sachet. It is not a licence for unlimited sweets: EvenOn gives you more freedom with food within a varied, balanced diet and sensible portions, and the steps above still matter.
When are sugar cravings a warning sign?
When they come with other changes: constant hunger together with thirst, passing urine often, tiredness, blurred vision, slow-healing cuts or weight loss without trying can be signs of high blood sugar.
Many people have no signs at all, and pre-diabetes has none (ACE). In Singapore, 1 in 3 people with diabetes do not know they have it yet (Ministry of Health, 2020). If the list sounds familiar, or you have never had your sugar checked, see your GP or a polyclinic for a fasting glucose test or an oral glucose tolerance test, which is how Singapore diagnoses pre-diabetes; HbA1c is not currently used for that diagnosis here (ACE). If you already have diabetes, HealthHub’s HbA1c target is 7% or lower, though your care team may set yours differently, and our guide to the HbA1c normal range in Singapore explains what your number means.
What if you take diabetes medicine?
Then a sudden, strong craving can be a low rather than a habit, so check before you fight it.
Hunger is one of the signs of low blood sugar, along with shaking, sweating, a fast heartbeat and confusion. People on insulin or on tablets that push the pancreas to release insulin, such as gliclazide, are most at risk when something else lowers their sugar, and cutting sugar while adding gymnema can do exactly that. If a craving comes with any of those signs, check your sugar and follow the low-sugar plan your care team gave you; see your doctor if readings are recurrently below 4 mmol/L (HealthHub). Keep taking your medicine as prescribed, never stop or change it on your own, check more often in the first weeks of any change, and tell your doctor you take EvenOn.
