Many people interested in staying healthy have switched to agave as a safer “natural” sweetener. They want to avoid well documented dangerous sweeteners like FFCS (high fructose corn syrup) but are unaware that agave is actually worse than HFCS.
Blue agave is an exotic plant growing in the volcanic soil of Mexico. It’s generally recognized as a superstar of the herbal remedy world, claiming to offer relief for indigestion, bowel irregularity and skin wounds. Ferment it and you have tequila. Agave “nectar” or agave “syrup” is nothing more than a laboratory generated super condensed fructose syrup, according to Dr. Mercola’s article, devoid of all nutrient value. There is a natural raw agave product made from the actual sap of the agave, but availability is limited because it’s so expensive to produce. The vast majority of agave syrups offered commercially are not this unprocessed raw agave from the sap. Remember that agave syrup is neither healthy nor natural. As reported by Dr. Ingrid Kohlstadt, “Agave is almost all fructose, a highly processed sugar with great marketing”.
See the article in it’s entirety at http://articles.mercola.com
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