Sugar is a pretty common ingredient in cranberry sauce, but Ina Garten chooses to avoid it altogether in her recipe, and the way she goes about it is genius.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eNot only does sugar help boost the sweetness of cranberry sauce, it helps to thicken it, so you’d think removing it from the ingredient list would be a fool’s errand, but Ina uses additional fruit to compensate.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOrange and apple increase and diversify the sweetness of the sauce, while the pectin in the apple acts as a thickening agent, meaning Ina really has no need to throw a bunch of unhealthy refined sugar into her recipe.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThat said, she u003cemu003edoesu003c/emu003e use sugar in her cranberry conserve recipe in our second spot.