Contents:
- Medical Video: Top 10 Best Health Benefits of Sweet Lime (Mosambi)
- The origin and benefits of Javanese sugar
- Nutrition contained in Javanese sugar
- Which is better with plain sugar?
Medical Video: Top 10 Best Health Benefits of Sweet Lime (Mosambi)
"Sweet sugar, Javanese sugar, is crying out laughing." A little age ago, you might often hear silly slogans like that. Yes, besides the benefits of Javanese sugar as an ingredient of traditional cuisine with its sweet taste, myth, eating Javanese sugar can also make the body more energetic? Is it true? Okay, you see the explanation below first.
The origin and benefits of Javanese sugar
Javanese sugar is sugar made from palm trees. Java sugar is yellowish or brown with a sweet taste of coconut sap. It is called Javanese sugar because many are made by craftsmen, mostly from Java, and are formed into semicircles, shells, or tubes, as you usually see.
Javanese sugar is one type of brown sugar. This sugar is made from palm trees (in English it is called palm sugar) which is tapped by the sap from the flower buds of the coconut tree. After the sap is obtained, the liquid is cooked until thickened and then printed into coconut shells or small round shapes.
Javanese sugar is known as natural sugar because its processing is still made traditionally (especially in Indonesia) without a mixture of chemicals in it.
Nutrition contained in Javanese sugar
Java sugar cannot be the main source of nutrition for the body. However, compared to other sweeteners, Javanese sugar is no less healthy and beneficial than other sweeteners, for example compared to sugar. Benefits of Javanese sugar can be obtained from the content of vitamin C, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium, and iron in it. Other benefits of java sugar are the content of a number of phytonutrients, such as polyphenols, flavonoids and anthocyanins, and antioxidants. Substances of phytonutrients can increase the body's immunity, make the body more energetic, and can ward off cancer cells.
Which is better with plain sugar?
Every sweetener absorbed by the body certainly has a glycemic index. The glycemic index is a scale to measure how quickly carbohydrates consumed increase glucose in your blood. Foods with a high glycemic index will have a greater impact on your blood sugar.
The scale range used to measure the glycemic index is 1-100. An index that is below 55 is considered not to affect the body's blood sugar, but if it is higher it may be more unhealthy.
Regarding the glycemic index of Javanese sugar, as reported by the Philippine Food and Nutrition Research Institute found, red coconut sugar or java sugar has a low glycemic index of 35. This study was conducted on 10 respondents. Almost twice different from the glycemic index value of sugar, which is 64, which means it is close to the high glycemic index (> 70).
In addition to the low glycemic index value, coconut brown sugar also contains a number of nutrients that are not present or very little in sugar. Coconut palm sugar also contains a number of amino acids and vitamins. So, it is safer and more beneficial than Javanese sugar.
