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Sweeteners

Sweeteners

OVERVIEW

What are sweeteners?

NUTRITIVE SWEETENERS (NS)

NUTRITIVE SWEETENER CHART

Sugar's building blocks

Glycemic Index / Load

Natural Nutritive Sweeteners:

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Table sugar

Highly Refined Sugars:

High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS)

Agave Syrup / Nectar

Too Much Sugar:

Too much sugar

Too much fructose

How to reduce sugar intake

How to overcome sugar cravings

NON-NUTRITIVE SWEETENERS (NNS)

NON-NUTRITIVE SWEETENER CHART

Artificial NNS:

Artificial sweeteners cause weight gain

Aspartame

Sucralose

Natural NNS:

Luo han guo (monk fruit)

Stevia

Allulose

Sugar Alcohols:

ARE THESE HEALTHY SWEETENERS?

Erythritol

Xylitol

Sweeteners

Luo Han Guo (Monk Fruit) - Natural / Minimally Processed Sweeteners

Luo Han Guo (Monk Fruit) - a natural NNS

Luo han guo (aka. Monk Fruit /Luo han kuo / lo han kuo) is a very sweet green southern Asian fruit.     Extracts (mogrosides) of luo han guo (called mogroside V or 5) are now being marketed in the West as a sweetener, although it has been around for some 800 years in China.    Juice is extracted from crushed fruit using water and then filtered to obtain the mogroside V (1% of monk fruit).

Has 10-250 times the sweetness of sugar.   Amounts used are too small to significantly effect human physiology.

This non-nutritive sweetener (NNS) sports 0 calories.   In fact 0 anything nutritional.

Supposedly does not leave an after taste

Combined with non-GMO erythritol (a fermented sugar alcohol ) it is a remarkable replica of sugar.   A patented process by Saraya, sold as Lakanto.

Similar to xylitol and stevia, it does not produce blood sugar spikes


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