Tate & Lyle Fruit Sugar

How much? I ask you cry as you realise how much more expensive fruit sugar is from normal sugar. Then follows the questions of whether you should pay the extra. Well in short for me no. The longer story is avalible below. I was introduced to fruit sugar via a diabetic friend. Diabetics opt for fruit sugar over normal cane sugar (the usual stuff), as it has a lower GI (Glycemic Index), which means that the sugars are relased slower so instead of getting a high spike, you get a slow realse and so a slower amount of surgar which plateus out. This is important for Non Diabetics as well as it stops the sugar rush, or the hyper state. Also unused sugars are ...  Read the complete review

We drink many cups of tea at home per day and the sugar that we have been putting into our tea isn't very healthy. I know tea do taste great without sugar but it is not easy to kick this habit off. I decided to try fruit sugar after reading about its benefit in a magazine. I started with Fruisana fruit sugar but they are not on Tesco shelves anymore, the other alternative is Tate and Lyle fruit sugar. Tate and Lyle launch their fruit sugar in 2005. Their fruit sugars have a low G.I. index rating (explained below) which means that its energy will be absorbed slower by the body hence there is no extreme highs and lows in energy ...  Read the complete review