Coco Palm Sugar
Coco Palm Sugars are Lactose free
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Lactose intolerance is a common problem. It happens when your body does not produce enough lactase, an enzyme produced in the small intestine. Lactase is necessary to digest lactose - the natural sugar found in milk and other dairy products. In the intestines, undigested lactose leads to the buildup of gas. Within 30 minutes to 2 hours after eating dairy products containing lactose, people with lactose intolerance start to develop stomach cramps and diarrhea.
All Coconut Palm Sugars are palm sugars but not all palm sugars are coconut sugars
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All right, let's say that another way: Coconut sugar is not equal to palm sugar.
Most of the people who visit our website are looking for information about palm sugars in general, but not specifically sugar made from coconut sap. A number of you are likely to be looking for the health benefits and/or nutrition values for coconut palm sugar.
Palm Sugar Conundrum
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Consumers have found it confusing. They now know there's Coco Palm Sugar but all they often see are "Palm Sugars" in the market. So, what's the difference and how can you tell them apart.
The good news is that I'm happy that people have discovered about coco palm sugars. Now, the bad news is how to tell them apart from the generic "palm sugar" moniker.
You may have heard of sugar palm trees. They're actually a reference for a group of palm trees from which sugars or syrups are derived, and not a particular kind of palm tree.
The palm sugar trees are:
Coco Palm Sugar Sweetness Scale
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The sucrose concentration in fresh coconut sap is about 12% (ave.) by weight, although
this varies from tree to tree, tree variety, and may range from 10% to over 14%.
Namnam Coco Palm Sugar is made by boiling the sap until it becomes
increasingly more concentrated and sweeter right up to the point where
Carbs and You
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Wholesome carbohydrates are the best choices for fueling your muscles and promoting good health. Unfortunately, confusion about carbohydrates as to what they are and how much of it to eat, keeps people from properly balancing their diet. Most people specially while trying to loose weight view carbohydrates as one of the biggest enemies that get into the way of their success. Foods containing carbohydrate cannot be simply lumped together and denounced as bad for us based on the fact that they raise our blood glucose and insulin levels.
Information about Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load
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What is the Glycemic Index?
The Glycemic Index (GI) is a way of measuring the relative impact of foods on blood sugar levels. Foods with a high glycemic index have carbohydrates that the body can quickly convert to sugar, which makes them more likely to cause a quick rise in blood sugar. Many popular diets (Atkins and South Beach, for example) include food choices based on the glycemic index.
Coco Palm Sugar for individual buyers (retail)
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Available now!
Now, free deliveries to your home or office in Metro Manila!
Namnam coco palm sugar is the modern incarnation of the traditional Philippine Pakaskas palm sap sweetener. Our ancestors made these sweeteners from the fresh, sweet palm sap prior to the introduction and widespread cultivation of the sugar cane by the Spaniards. The traditional pakaskas are made from the Buri palm tree.
A hitch-hiker's guide to the Coco Palm Sugaring process
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(with sincere apologies to Douglas Adams.)
This question is asked often enough and definitely deserves a page of its own.
A practical, hands-on experience is never the same as theoretical information, but this, I hope, would be helpful for those who want to know how it's done.
