There is a myth circulating about diabetics and chocolates. Some diabetics believe that they should never eat chocolate because it will completely ruin their blood sugar control. Others claim that diabetics can eat as much regular chocolate as they want, as long as...
For many years, chocolate was considered a “bad” food because of its high levels of saturated fat and sugar. However, in the 1990’s several studies revealed that chocolate had many positive benefits and including it in one’s diet was recommended because of the many...
Stevia sweetener is an intensely sweet, white powder derived from the Stevia plant, which is native to Paraguay and Brazil but is now also grown in China and Japan as a crop. The plant has been used in Paraguay since the 16th Century as a herbal medicine as well as to...
Sugar alcohols are a subset of polyols. Technically, polyols “are compounds with multiple functional hydroxyl groups bound to a carbon atom.”[1] That’s a rather complicated definition. For purposes of this article, they are naturally and artificially produced...