Healthy Eating / Healthy Living

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by Disneyphile

SF - I've never heard of agave sweetener. That sounds really interesting!

Trader Joe's is now carrying an organic agave (currently until they discontinue it) $2.25 for an 11oz squeeze bottle.

It's a 100% natural product and is super sweet. I use it in my tea, on fruit & yogurt, just about any place I'd use sugar. I do not know if it can be or is proceesed to a form like crystals. It tastes great and I do not know all the benefits, all I know is that I like it and it has replaced white death in my household. I do use turbanado sugar for baking and stuff like that.

[Morrigoon]

Originally Posted by Snowflake

Trader Joe's is now carrying an organic agave (currently until they discontinue it) $2.25 for an 11oz squeeze bottle.

It's a 100% natural product and is super sweet. I use it in my tea, on fruit & yogurt, just about any place I'd use sugar. I do not know if it can be or is proceesed to a form like crystals. It tastes great and I do not know all the benefits, all I know is that I like it and it has replaced white death in my household. I do use turbanado sugar for baking and stuff like that.

I may have to give this stuff a try

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Snowflake

Trader Joe's is now carrying an organic agave (currently until they discontinue it) $2.25 for an 11oz squeeze bottle.

It's a 100% natural product and is super sweet. I use it in my tea, on fruit & yogurt, just about any place I'd use sugar. I do not know if it can be or is proceesed to a form like crystals. It tastes great and I do not know all the benefits, all I know is that I like it and it has replaced white death in my household. I do use turbanado sugar for baking and stuff like that.

Just because I like being a skeptic thorn in people's sides - most agave syrups have in the neighborhood of 90% fructose. High fructose corn syrup, the thing we're all supposed to be afraid of, is about 55% fructose.

Now, there is admittedly a slight chemical difference between the processed form fructose in HFCS vs. the naturally occurring form in agave. However, there is a similar slight difference between the type of fructose in HFCS vs. the type of fructose that's been tentatively linked in studies to the supposed ill efffects of HFCS.

My point is, I would strongly warn against getting lost in the particulars of what any one chemical is supposed to do or not do. The data on all of that is sketchy at best.

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Just because I like being a skeptic thorn in people's sides - most agave syrups have in the neighborhood of 90% fructose. High fructose corn syrup, the thing we're all supposed to be afraid of, is about 55% fructose.

You skeptic, you!

Anyway, for more reading, and yes, this is an agave supplier, look here for details.

All I'm saying is, I use it, and I do not use a lot of it. It is a very sweet item, a small spoonful in a cup of tea is more then sucificient to sweeten tea/coffee/whatever.

For the record, I drink mostly water, usually 1 cup of tea in the evening and maybe some iced tea. If I am using this on plain yogurt & fruit, a drizzle is more than enough.

I figure that this is better for me than Equal/Splenda or honey and white sugar. ymmv and I'm all for anyone being informed. Just sayin I use it and I like it.