Why is Palm Sugar Better Than Granulated Sugar?

Many experts recommend palm sugar to replace granulated sugar (or just sugar). Is it true? Granulated sugar has become an important substance in various meals such as cookies, candy, biscuits, and beverages. Sugar derived from sugar cane and beets or tubers while palm sugar comes from sap of palm trees through a natural process.

Calories contained in palm sugar is much less than ordinary sugar. Palm sugar glycemic index is only 35 while sugar has 58 on the same index. By the way, glycemic index is a scale given to certain food according to how it increases our blood sugar level. A certain food is low on glycemic index if it has 50 or less on the scale, while 50-70 is moderate and over 70 is high.

Experts claim that lower glycemic index makes palm sugar safe to consume by diabetics because it doesn’t significantly raises blood sugar level. Also, there is one fact that the darker the sugar color is, the more nutrition traces if contains. As you know, palm sugar is pretty dark.

The making process of palm sugar is also more natural so that important substances in it still remains undamaged. No other substance is needed, or added, in the distillation process.

Palm sugar is also known to contain other useful substances such as thiamine, riboflavin, ascorbic acid, protein, and vitamin C.

Other alternative for natural sweetener is stevia, an ingredient from Paraguay. Stevia has been used for hundreds of year and it has a lot higher sweetness degree than sugar. This sweetener doesn’t contain calories and it’s safe for you blood sugar.