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Sugar. frozen condensed sugarcane juice, non-refined sugar, barley
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that are good for the health. Without any additional chem-
DE IN CHINA Sugar. malt juice, cassonade, date sugar, maple sugar and honey,
icals, they contain more than one good elements for humans’
health. Enzymes are easily to be absorbed by the body, and

mins, minerals, fatty acids, amino acids, anticancer tannic
acid and flavonoids.Finally, let’s try to do a low-sugar sorbet
MADE IN CHINA 5Kg.NET it helps in the conversion of carbohydrates, cellules, vita-
ourselves by using only natural sweeteners.

Honey Lemon Sorbet
Careful with Sugar
Total amount of sugar:26%
- 750g Sugarcane juice
Actually, the pursuit of sweet-taste is an instinctive and - 118g Honey
physiological need, that people are born with. Sugar exist in - 150g Lemon juice
every kind of food, which makes it harder for people to control - 7g Tremella extract
their sugar consumption. In recent years, raising number of
health problems caused by excessive sugar intake attracted In this recipe, we replace refined sugar by sugarcane juice
attention worldwide. Different studies, like the one from and honey. Measured by refractometer, sugar content in sug-
Medical center in Charité University in Berlin, proved that arcane juice is 19%, taking about 55% of total sugar amount.
high sugar intake will negatively impact one’s health. The We replaced thickener and emulsifier with tremella extracts.
result showed that compared to a healthy person, people that The process of freezing and discharging/forming has no differ-
have been consuming glucose in big amounts for a long time, ence from normal sorbet. The mixture of the sorbet is good
might have poor memory and smaller hippocampus. Accord- enough to shape. After hardening under -30 degree, we measured
ing to the study’s co-author Agnes Flöel, a neurologist at its total content sugar, 26%, when the lowest limit of sorbet
Charité, the results claim:“Higher glucose level in blood is sugar content range from 26% to 32%. We did not use any thick-
associated with lower memory and reduced hippocampal ener nor emulsifier except for tremella extract, so the status of
microstructure”. Once hippocampus damaged, it will increase sorbet is hard but scatted. Then it can be shaped but the mouth
the risk of dementia. feel will still not be fine and smooth and the texture needs to be
In addition, eating a lot of sugar on an empty stomach improved. In terms of flavor, fresh and sweet flavor from sugar-
will increase a high sugar content in your blood, which will cane juice makes it easy to match with different fruits. Using
destroy the balance of acids and alkali and other various ben- honey makes matching the sorbet with other ingredients diffi-
eficial microbes in the body. No doubt, all this is harmful. To cult. For example, flavor of honey covered lemon flavor the
reduce the risk of consuming too much sugar, in 2017, nearly first time we tried matching flavors. Next time, the direction
ten countries decided to tax high sugar content beverages, of improvements will be: 1. Increase total sugar content. 2.
including USA, India, France and UK. Sugar tax is a movement Use frozen concentrated sugarcane juice to better control its
by governments of the world to decrease the sugar content in concentration. 3. Try other light flavored honey.
beverages. Meanwhile, consumers are paying more and more We always try our best when it comes to family and
attention to food’s benefits for health. They want more fresh friends, and making gelato for them is no exception. That’s
and organic products and less sugar. The result of 2017 Food why we should look for natural ingredients and handle them
& Health Survey by IFIC (International Food Information in the most original and simple way to make safer, healthier
Council) showed that majority (76%) of USA consumers are and more delicious gelato.
trying to avoid/limit sugars in their diets.

Natural Sugar Alternatives
Sugarcane is a source of high quality sugar. It can be
absorbed in the original and most simple way. Once refined,
the enzyme, cellules, vitamins and minerals it contains will
be destroyed. The refinement of sugar takes out the nutri-
ents contained in sugarcane.
The trend of replacing refined sugar by natural healthy
sugar alternatives is happening in beverage industry. There
are different high nutritional sweeteners, like fruit juice,

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