What is Organic Coconut Palm Sugar ?
Coconut sugar looks like brown sugar and has a strong caramel taste. It's produced in the Philippines and elsewhere in South East Asia, and is made from the sap of the coconut palm tree. It is essentially the same as palm sugar and jaggery, which can be made from palm sap or sugar cane.
Coconut sugar undergoes little processing so, as with other unrefined sugars, it retains some of the natural vitamins, minerals, fibre and antioxidants. The nutrients in coconut sugar (or other unrefined sugar) are likely to have a minimal effect unless you eat large amounts, when any benefit will be outweighed by all the sugar you're eating.
Coconut sugar has only recently become widely available in the UK but is gaining popularity, partly because of the growing interest in other coconut products.
Many people are now choosing alternatives to white sugar, including coconut sugar, honey, molasses, syrups and nectars (such as date or agave), in the belief that they are healthier.
But all of these products contain free sugars - the kind we eat too much of on average in the UK. Coconut sugar has the same number of calories as other sugar, refined or not. Use it if you like the taste or if it works in your recipe, but treat it in the same way as any other sugar and use it sparingly.
The benefits of our Organic Coconut Palm Sugar
Organic Coconut Sugar has Traces of Nutrition
Regarding nutrition, the Philippine Coconut Authority reported coconut palm sugar to have a Glycemic Index (GI) of 35, making it a low-glycemic food. In addition, it has been measured to have 25% per 100 grammes of our daily recommended potassium intake and provide 16 calories per teaspoon.Palm sugar doesn't offer much in the way of vitamins and minerals. However, there are traces of beneficial nutrients such as B vitamin inositol, vitamin C, calcium, zinc, iron, and magnesium, among several others.
Organic Coconut Palm Sugar is a Low Glycemic Food
The effect carbohydrates have on a person's blood sugar is measured to find where food is on the glycemic index. Regular sugar has a rating of between 60 and 75, so the fact that organic coconut palm sugar is reported to have just 35 is a positive thing.The higher the glycemic index number, the more it will cause your blood sugar to spike and then crash, causing unstable blood sugar and contributing to related diseases such as Diabetes.
The application of Organic Coconut Palm Sugar
While it is not strictly considered a healthy food, it is one of the best ways to sweeten food and drink over other options, such as regular sugar, which is empty calories and has a high impact on blood sugar levels.Coconut sugar can be used in baking, tea and coffee, and other things that require a sweetener. However, because it has a slightly different flavour, you might use less of it than regular sugar.
As well as having fewer calories per teaspoon, Coconut sugar also contains several trace vitamins and minerals that are beneficial to health, which conventional white sugar does not.To summarise - Organic Coconut Sugar is an unrefined, natural sweetener. It contains trace nutrients such as zinc, iron, magnesium and many others. It also provides quite a high amount of potassium, which benefits nerve health, muscle strength, and blood pressure.
Most of all, coconut sugar is held in high esteem for its low GI rating, meaning spikes in blood sugar can be avoided when using this sweetener. In addition, this coconut sugar, or coco palm sugar, has many advantages over regular palm sugar and has many unique qualities.
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