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Palm Sugar is still just Sugar - it's NOT healthy |
April 20, 2011 |
| Reviewer:
Joe Creitz
from San Francisco, CA United States
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Samovar's video promoting palm sugar grossly overstates the benefits of this product. Yes, it is more sustainably produced than cane and beat sugar. Yes it contains some micronutrients. But at the end of the day, palm sugar is mostly sucrose - which is, itself, 50% fructose. The fructose is what lowers palm sugar's glycemic index - and also what makes it just as toxic to your liver as table sugar or high fructose corn syrup.
There are absolutely no scientific studies whatsoever to suggest that substituting palm sugar for any other kind of sugar will protect anyone from insulin resistance, diabetes, or obesity.
A pinch of palm sugar in your tea or coffee isn't likely to kill you, but then neither is a pinch of table sugar. Eating lots of either one, however, might indeed kill you over time, and there's no reason to think that either is any safer than the other.
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