We’ve already been extolling the virtues of coconut sugar: a granulated brown sugar, it’s 100% natural, and the perfect alternative to refined sugars in applications such as confectionery, desserts and savoury products such as sauces. It has a low glycemic index and unlike refined sugar, some actual nutritional value. We see coconut sugar as a great way for food manufacturers to offer “guilt free” indulgent sweets.

We were really pleased to see coconut sugar featured on the San Francisco ABC affiliate’s show the View from the Bay. In a segment called Make over your pantry with healthy foods, they look beyond counting calories and grams of fat, and instead look at the ingredients which make up the food we eat. The very first ingredient to be featured was coconut sugar, where they specifically made mention of it’s amazing characteristics, including the fact that it tastes like (refined) sugar, and can be used in place of refined sugar in most recipes. According to the show:

The average amount of refined sugar we eat on average in the US is over 150 pounds of refined sugar per person. Refined sugar pulls nutrients from our body making us deficient and actually lowers our immune system after eating it for a few hours making us more susceptible to colds. I love coconut sugar because it has a glycemic index of about half that of sugar so it won’t cause blood sugar fluctuations. It’s also high in Potassium, Magnesium, Zinc and Iron and is a natural source of the vitamins B1, B2, B3, B6 and C.

We encourage you to check out the segment in it’s entirety for other interesting ingredient ideas:

Make over your pantry with healthy foods

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