Refining and Processing Sugar When you reach for the sugar bowl, you are reaching for sucrose. And, whether you know it or not, you’re opting for the purest foods found on the kitchen pantry shelf and in prepared food products. This document provides an overview of how natural sugar is refined and processed.
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Breakfast On The Run Learn why it’s so important for you and your family to eat breakfast. Find out what the “ideal” breakfast includes and find four tasty breakfast recipes that include all-natural sugar for a healthy start to your day.
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Pleasing Picky Eaters Getting picky eaters and children to eat healthy can be a real challenge. Check out this brochure for tips that will make it easier and more fun to eat well. And find several great recipes that are exciting to eat and make.
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Should you be concerned about your child eating sugar? With all the contradicting advice parents are getting about what to or not to feed their children, this document provides up-to-date scientific information on all the questions about sugar in children's diets. |
Reformulating Foods This documents discusses the issues surrounding the push to reformulate foods using ingredient substitution and whether this is best way to solve the problem of increasing numbers of individuals that are overweight and obese or will it simply create a new set of problems.
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About Sugar answers common questions about sugar and other sweeteners.
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Sugar: Natural Sweetness answers the questions - "What is sugar?", "What does the term refining really mean?" and "Why is sugar in foods?"
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Sugar's Glycemic Index: Debunking the Myths addresses the basis for many popular diets - the glycemic index - and debunks the myth that sugar is a high gylcemic food.
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Sugar Intake: What Does Science Say? reviews the full body of science on sugar and highlights the conclusions of major scientific reviews.
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Targeting Sugar: What Do We Risk? provides a counter-perspective to the movement to solve today's dietary
problems by replacing ingredients that were once staples in our food supply. |
Sugar's Functional Role in Cooking is a handbook detailing all the essential functional properties that sugar contibutes to foods and is a magnificent teaching tool for everyone from the average consumer to secondary school students to culinary professionals.
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Test Your Label IQ includes a fun quiz that will help you learn about sugar and the Nutrition Facts Panel.
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Current Knowledge of the Health Effects of Sugar Intake is a 2002 USDA study exonerating sugar of causing obesity, diabetes, coronary heart disease or hyperactivity in children. |
The Highly Active Child addresses the common dilemma of determining whether a child suffers from Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) or is simply highly active? This brochure offers tips for parents on how to recognize their children's positive traits and channel their abundance of energy.
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Fit For Life...Ideas for Healthy Living provides information on sugar, nutrition labels, health and nutrition along with two tasty recipes.
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Sugar Consumption...The Truth provides accurate data based on USDA information of sugar consumption in the United States.
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Sugar’s Healing Power Sugar has been used in wound healing for thousands of years. This fact sheet explains how it works and provides quotes about its effectiveness from actual scientific studies. |
Filling Up On Fiber Increasing fiber in your diet is a very important nutritional goal. This brochure provides helpful tips and recipes for increasing fiber in the diet. Remember: sugar makes many fiber rich foods tasty enough to eat. |
How Well Do You Know Sugar? This is a 36 page booklet that provides information on just what is sugar, how is it refined, why it is in foods, types of sugar, other sweeteners, what does the science say about sugars intake, myths and finally challenges individuals to recognize the importance of total caloric intake and physical activity for good health. |