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Navitas Naturals palm sugar is a new, wonderful, and healthy sweetener alternative. Coconut palm trees are the natural source of this sugar. Traditional sugar farmers collect the nectar of the blossoms from these sustainably grown trees, and carefully craft a caramel-like crystal sugar. Perfect as a 1:1 cane sugar replacement, Navitas Naturals palm sugar is easily incorporated into everything culinary, from favorite dessert recipes to homemade lemonade. Safe for diabetics and those looking for weight control, palm sugar is a naturally low glycemic index food (GI35), boasting almost half the GI of cane sugar. With vitamins and minerals such as potassium, magnesium, zinc, and iron, palm sugar really is the sweetest way to a healthy lifestyle. This palm sugar is 100% organic, vegan, kosher, gluten-free, and sustainably-grown. This is sold in a pack of two 16-ounce pouches.
About Navitas Naturals
The food philosophy of Navitas Naturals is simple--nutrient rich whole foods are best produced using organic agricultural methods with minimal processing. Focusing on both food safety and nutrition, they handle their premium superfoods with care. This includes third party testing for all the products. Their facility is organic, kosher, and GMP/HACCP certified. In addition, they utilize methods such as freeze-drying and low temperature processing to ensure maximum nutrition and safety.
“Navitas” is the Latin word for energy. As the name implies, their mission is to provide premium organic functional foods that increase energy and enhance health. Part of this effort is to continually search for the world’s most beneficial natural foods. Navitas Naturals is a certified organic, green business headquartered in Marin County, California.
They specialize in organic and wild-crafted functional foods, and strive to lead the industry in this expanding market. Health conscious consumers choose their nutrient-rich products because they are loaded with antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals.
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Customer Reviews
Was concerned about sugar, afraid of saccharine, stevia could get bitter and had its own set of warnings.
Raw honey was certainly more natural, but still high glycemic.
I was so relieved when I discovered organic Agave Nectar.
Very low glycemic, and sweeter than sugar or honey, so used less.
How deceived I felt when I started reading about *why* it was low glycemic.
It is really just light high fructose corn syrup! (HFCS also is low glysemic).
The problem with AN and HFCS is it rushes right to your liver and gets processed there! Intakes "may indirectly harm the liver by increasing the risk of obesity, diabetes, and elevated blood levels of triglyceride fat, all of which in turn increase the risk of liver disease." [...]
So the search was on to once again find something that could sweeten up my tea and not harm me!
This Palm Sugar is perfect! One tsp has only 10 calories and 2.5 gm carbs, yet has a glycemic index of only 35- about the same as the now-dreaded AN, and much lower than regular sugar or honey. Also, palm sugar has a good amount of nutrients and minerals in it. While I certainly do not consider it a health food I am pleased to know that instead of impacting harm it could be doing a little good!
Be careful of what brand you buy.
I heard that some american companies are mixing it with cane sugar; other brands have more calories than this organic one from Navitas.
The taste? Perfect! Has a slight light-brown sugar flavor. Definitely does not over-power but rather enhances the drink.
I have not cooked with it mainly because I have not yet cooked any sweets since this arrived. Would I? Hard to say. I would love to, but I think of it as special, and not sure if I would want to waste it by having it lost in a cookie. But then that subtle flavor...I'm thinking it would be awesome in biscotti!
There is a danger that you will want to make too many goodies though!
