Jakarta, Many health experts advise to replace sugar with palm sugar in mixed drinks or food. Why touted palm sugar is healthier than white sugar?
Sugar or white sugar has become the staple food in many foods such as cakes, sweets, biscuits or a few drinks. White sugar is derived from sugar cane and beet plants or tubers. While palm sugar comes from the sap of palm trees that are processed naturally.
As quoted from the LIVESTRONG, Tuesday (11/1/2011) calories contained in a smaller palm sugar than white sugar. Palm sugar has a glycemic index value is low at 35 while on the sugar glycemic index of 58.
The glycemic index (GI) is a scale or number given to certain foods based on how much of these foods increase blood sugar levels, the scale used is 0-100. Called low glycemic index if it is on a scale of less than 50, the glycemic index if its value is 50-70 and high glycemic index if the number is above 70.
In addition, the manufacturing process, generally have a natural palm sugar so that certain substances contained therein are not damaged and remain intact. And does not require refining process that many times or use additional materials to purify it.
The experts reveal the value of a lower glycemic index makes palm sugar is safe to eat and does not cause a spike in blood sugar levels significantly, so that it can harm the body, especially for diabetics. And the darker the color of the sugar, then the trace nutrient tends to be a lot.
In addition to fewer sugar content, palm sugar is also known to contain other compounds that are useful such as thiamine, riboflavin, ascorbic acid, proteins and vitamin C.
Other option is to use a natural sweetener stevia, which is used herb of Paraguay for hundreds of years and has a sweet taste that is many times more than sugar. These sweeteners contain no calories and are generally safe for blood sugar levels.
If you want to get a healthier body, it could not hurt began replacing sugar with palm sugar if you want to consume coffee, tea or mixed into other foods.
Source : http://health.detik.com/read/2011/01/11/075447/1543689/766/kenapa-gula-aren-lebih-sehat-dari-gula-pasir
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