{"id":1402,"date":"2012-03-29T19:10:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T23:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondgorgeous\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2012-03-29T19:10:34","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T23:10:34","slug":"coconut-palm-sugar-the-newest-healthy-sweetener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondgorgeous\/2012\/03\/coconut-palm-sugar-the-newest-healthy-sweetener.html","title":{"rendered":"Coconut Palm Sugar &#8212; The Newest Healthy Sweetener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A spoonful of sugar makes the panic attacks go away?\u00a0 Well, maybe it will help.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondgorgeous\/files\/2012\/03\/207166_10150566829270537_758175536_18018906_565319_n23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1404\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/261\/2012\/03\/207166_10150566829270537_758175536_18018906_565319_n23-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>One of the newest sugars on the alternative sweetener aisle has been around for hundreds of years in southeast Asia.\u00a0 Now it is quickly becoming the favorite here, too.\u00a0 Coconut palm sugar has the advantage of being natural, minimally processed, good for you, and low glycemic.\u00a0 Sound good?<\/p>\n<p>The sugar is made from the sap of the coconut palm, grown mainly in the Philippines.\u00a0 The farmers make a slit in at the base of the coconut flower and the sap which would be\u00a0 otherwise flowing into the flower to make a coconut is diverted into a bamboo bucket.<\/p>\n<p>Coconut palm sugar tastes slightly like brown sugar but has twice the iron, four times the magnesium and more than 10 times the amount of zinc.\u00a0 It also contains vitamin B1, B2, B3 and B6.\u00a0 It contains16 amino acids, including Glutamine which has been shown to be useful in the treatment of several illnesses, injury, trauma and burns.<\/p>\n<p>Inositol is another vitamin found abundantly in coconut sap.\u00a0 Among other things, Inositol is known to relieve the symptoms of diabetic neuropathy and is recommended as a treatment for anxiety, depression, bipolar mood disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and, yes,\u00a0 panic disorders.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure how much sugar you would need to eat to get enough Inositol to do you much good, but it would certainly be a pleasant treatment!<\/p>\n<p>This sugar has a low glycemic index of 35, is not ridiculously expensive, and has the same number of calories of white table sugar. It substitutes 1:1 in recipes.<\/p>\n<p>So what\u2019s the downside?\u00a0 I found a Web site proclaiming \u201cThe Other Side of Coconut Palm Sugar\u201d and thought, \u201cHere\u2019s the bad news.\u201d\u00a0 To my surprise, the bad news was that sugar was becoming so profitable that the farmers were harvesting the sap instead of growing coconuts, which would lead to a shortage of coconut and coconut oil.\u00a0 No adverse effects of the sugar at all.<\/p>\n<p>Tastes good, is low glycemic, and substitutes easily for white sugar.\u00a0 If it had lower calories it would be perfect, but as a healthy alternative, it comes pretty close.<\/p>\n<p>Eating to live and living for Christ,<\/p>\n<p>Susan Jordan Brown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spoonful of sugar makes the panic attacks go away?\u00a0 Well, maybe it will help. 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