It's a nutritious sweetener called stevia, special diabetics!

One of the ingredients that we use every day are the sweeteners, both in the food, drinks, and supplements. Usually, natural sweetener ingredient or ingredients of synthetic sweeteners (artificial) used to add flavor to a product.

Generally, we use natural sweeteners are sugars sucrose or sugar cane, and did you know, every year no matter the need for the increased sugar tablets!

One thing you need to beware of is consuming excessive sugar sucrose could also have an impact on the disease known as diabetes.

In fact, according to data from the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) in the year 2017, there were 425 million people in the world aged 20 – 79 years suffer from diabetes. Whereas, in 2013 then, Director General of disease control and environmental health (Dirjen P2PL) even assert, that Indonesia is a country which is at no. 7 with the highest diabetes prevalence, after China, India, USA, Brazil, Russia, and Mexico.

What are the diseases that can be caused by too much sugar?

The first is diabetes mellitus. The relationship of consumption of sugar with diabetes was a result of high sugar consumption then can make the work one of the organs of the body — that of the pancreas — work harder to produce insulin.

Insulin is a hormone that acts to normalize sugar levels in the blood. Well, if too much insulin is produced, it can cause fatigue on pancreatic insulin production, so any decline. If insulin decreases, then the sugar levels in the blood will rise up to can cause diabetes. Not only diabetes, high sugar consumption can also lead to cavities. It is caused by bacteria that are in the mouth of the ferment sugars, thus becoming acid. This acid can eventually damage the email on the teeth and finally, make a hollow tooth.

Then, excessive sugar consumption can also lead to overweight, or obese. Why can it be so? Due to the excessive sugar consumption can affect hormonal balance which can increase appetite.

What Is The Solution?

Actually, there is already a sweetener sugar substitute known as low-calorie sweeteners and can be consumed by diabetics.

You must have a lot to meet different cane sugar substitute on the market, namely a type of sweetener derived from chemical syntheses, such as aspartame, saccharin, cyclamate, and containing the sweetness of 200 – 700 times that of sugar cane.

However, it turns out that the sweetener is suspected can cause other problems for health, and considered can trigger the emergence of cancer. Hence, the use of the sugar should be limited. Then, there are rough No Yes, sugar — in addition to the sugar cane and sugar synthetic last — that is low in calories and very safe for health especially for diabetics? Of course, there is. Alternative sweetener other than cane sugar and sugar Synthetic

come on, acquaintance with the leaves of stevia!

Plant leaf stevia (Stevia rebaudiana) is a type of natural low-calorie sweetener derived from plants and can be used as a substitute for sugar. The use of stevia as a natural alternative sweetener has been developed in the country of Brazil and Paraguay, environment, as well as the use of stevia as a sweetener, also has evolved in some countries, like the UK, South America, Japan, Korea, and China.

Stevia leaf extract can be used as a natural sweetener for low-calorie products, either in the form of food or drink. Stevia has a sweetness that is not as powerful as artificial sweeteners such as aspartame, which is 200 – 300 times from cane sugar, and don't give a bitter taste when consumed.

However, there are also of some research that says the sugar of the stevia leaf extract can also give you a little bitter taste. Well, it depends on the use of stevia as what products are made, and also how much varying quantities of sugar used stevia.

Curious, why not leaf stevia has a sweet taste that way?

That is because stevia contains glycoside which consists of stevioside and rebaudioside. Stevioside has advantages over other artificial sweeteners can be stable at high temperature and has a rate of 250 times the sweetness of sugar sweetness.

Whereas, rebaudioside can provide 300 times the sweetness of sugar compared to. In addition to the compound sweetener glycoside, other contents found in the stevia include protein, fiber, carbohydrates, vitamin A, vitamin C, flavonoids, potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, and sodium and iron.

What are the advantages of Stevia Sweetener Ingredients compared to others?

From some research it mentions, that stevia has several advantages for health, which does not affect the levels of sugar in the blood so it is safe for diabetics. In addition, stevia can also prevent damage to your teeth — by way of inhibiting the growth of bacteria that exist in the mouth — and can be used to regulate weight, because stevia has a low-calorie level.

Data from the WHO itself also mentions, that the content of glycoside in the stevia is not carcinogenic (cancer-causing substances) mutagenic nor (the substance that triggered changes in the chromosomes or genes), and can help provide the effect is good for diabetics.

In fact, since the year 2008, FDA (Food Drug Administration) had also allowed the stevia becomes one of the addictives, and included into the category of GRAS (Generally Recognize the US Safe) and limit the consumption of the ADI (Acceptable Daily Intake) as much as 4mg/ KgBB/day.

Well, once we know the benefits, advantages, and the content of stevia sweeteners material compared to other, surely now we need not worry about consuming sweets Yes. We can overcome it by replacing sugar sweeteners (sucrose) and sweetener from stevia sugar. So, now if you want to buy a sweetener other than cane sugar, make sure there is a stevia are listed on the label of the packaging.