healthy sweeteners

Sugar, honey, and other natural sweeteners are an important source of pleasure. They are frequently used in drinks, cakes, biscuits, sauces, candy, and many other indulgence foods. Unfortunately, most of the sugar appearing on supermarket shelves is highly refined, which means that it is stripped of the nutrients which were originally present in the plants from which it was derived.

There is currently a huge demand for organically certified cane sugar and other natural sweeteners. This must be derived from organically grown sugar cane which is then processed without the use of synthetic chemicals. Wholesale stocks of organic sugar are now purchased by large food manufacturing companies which have developed their own range of organic products. At the moment, organic sugar is imported from Brazil, Paraguay, and many smaller countries with emerging economies.

Organic sugar production is better for the environment in several ways. By avoiding synthetic fertilisers, organic plantations are less likely to increase the salinity of local soils and groundwater. To avoid their plantations being overwhelmed by weeds, organic growers tend to harvest a single crop from each planting before rotating their fields to another crop. This helps protect the soils from nutrient depletion. With chemical treatments, conventional growers usually extract several annual crops from a single planting.

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Healthy Sweetners - BIOKING CAROB POWDER, organic
COCOA POWDER, organic
COCOA DRINK, organic
TOPINAMBUR, organic
DEMARARA SUGAR (coarse), organic
ACTIVE SUGAR (sugarcane), organic