What is Organic Coconut Sugar? The question that is often on the minds of most people while looking for coconut sugar is whether this sweetener is healthy or not? We would terribly love to be able to say coconut sugar is healthy.
Organic Granule Coconut Sugar is an organic sweetener with a light to dark brown granulated texture. It is easy to melt soft granulated sugar as well as cane sugar but richer in flavour. With a slightly like caramel aroma, this organic coconut sugar works particularly well alongside chocolate, make it suitable for adding ingredient to desserts, beverages, or bakery products.
Moreover, because coconut sugar is made from the nutrient-dense coconut sap, it retains some valuable nutrients, including magnesium, potassium, zinc and iron. It would really matters when you care about the quality of your health. It is also organics, which means it is actually a less addictive sweet stuff with a lower in calories for the same volume as cane sugar.
Coconut sugar is sometimes confused with Brown, Aren, or Arenga Sugar to the naked eye. The Arenga sugar is another type of sweetener that derives from a different kind of palm tree (Arenga Pinnata) and yield a very distinctly different product.
Arenga wears a much darker brown colour, sometimes appearing black-tinted (thus its common name in some places, ‘Black Sugar Palm’); coconut sugar owns a brown that ranges from bright yellow to reddish brown. In aroma, coconut sugar also displays caramel aroma notes not found in Arenga Sugar. The same caramel notes in sweetness is found in coconut sugar that are not found in Arenga sugar.
Excellent for: Baking, chocolate making, confectionaries, beverages, coffee and teas Application: 1:1 ratio sugar cane crystals substitute, both in volume and weight Colours: Light brown, yellow to brown, brown Tastes like: Soft sweet wit hint caramel Smells: soft unique palm sugar aroma with caramel Glycemic Index (GI): 35 Diabetic friendliness: Very friendly