Thai cuisine is based on a Chinese concept of incorporating five fundamental flavors in each dish: hot or pungent, salty, sour, fat, and sweet. Because palms grow in India and Thailand , their sap is a natural choice for sweetening foods.
Four years after my trip to Bangkok , walking through the market of Hong Kong to Houston, I noticed a large jar of golden dough with the label "Pure Sugar Palm … fresh natural juice from the coconut flower." I've been avoiding refined cane sugar for five years because it is insanely high glycemic index and the lack of nutritional value. I learned to cook with honey, molasses, sorghum, brown rice syrup, agave nectar, dehydrated cane juice. But I had never seen palm sugar for sale before. I bought the 4-lb. jar to just over $ 6.00, and occasional spoonfuls tasted on the trip back to Arkansas (delicious but not very wise!).
Upon returning home I began to search palm sugar and realized that its glycemic index is 35, just over 1 / 3 the glycemic index of cane sugar (GI 93). This means that that if a person sits down to a tablespoon of palm sugar and a tablespoon of white cane sugar, cane sugar will increase the levels of glucose in the blood of the person to a certain extent, while palm sugar levels will only increase of glucose to about 37% of the level of sugar cane.
What great news for anyone interested to keep their glucose levels, including those with diabetes and those trying to prevent diabetes in their lifetime.
Why palm sugar breaks down more slowly than sugar cane, and thus raises blood glucose levels that cause only% sugar cane, sugar palm requires less insulin to the body to maintain homeostasis . Thus, taxes palm sugar pancreas less than cane sugar. Excessive demand on the pancreas from foods high glycemic exhausts the capacity of the pancreas to produce insulin, as well as the ability of insulin receptors' to recognize insulin, and therefore leads to type II diabetes.
As anyone with a diagnosis of type II diabetes can be said, putting as little pressure as possible on the pancreas is a wise diet. Why palm sugar puts half a lot of pressure on the pancreas, such as white sugar can, we can hazard that the moderate use of Palm sugar is a safe alternative sweetener. By contrast the honey has a GI of 83. Maple syrup has a glycemic index of 54.
ranges Agave nectar glycemic index between 11 and 30, making it the only sweetener glycemic lower than that of palm sugar that I can find.
The relatively low cost of palm sugar, if purchased through major Asian markets, and the presence of natural potassium, magnesium, zinc and iron, make it an economically viable natural sweetener with a pleasant flavor of white sugar.
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