date:Aug 31, 2018
ng it has roughly the same amount of calories as regular sugar and costs more than $4 a pound compared with about $1 per pound for brown sugar.
The real benefit of coconut sugar is that it doesnt cause your blood sugar to spike as much as most other sugars do. The University of Sydney pegs coconut sugar as a low-glycemic food, with a glycemic index (GI) of 54. Comparatively, quinoa has a GI of 53 and regular sugar has a GI of 65. (The report from the Philippines noted the GI of coconut sugar as