00:00All these products are very fashionable, we talk about it more and more.
00:03It started in the past with agave syrup, with books that described its interest in health.
00:08I'm going to explain to you what all these sugar syrups are.
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00:33About two syrups, agave syrup and sugar.
00:37The first thing is to tell you that we went to the supermarkets to look for these syrups, agave and sugar.
00:44We didn't find them, which proves that they are products reserved for certain types of stores
00:50or products that justify advertising on the Internet and that's how their reputation grows.
00:56But I'll tell you about it in the middle or at the end of this video, you'll see, I'll tell you what it is exactly.
01:01The particularity of all these syrups will be two things.
01:04The first thing is their dilution in terms of water, which is what will give them their caloric value.
01:09The more water there is, the fewer calories there will be inside.
01:12And their sugar composition, knowing that there will be several types of sugar,
01:16whether it's saccharose, fructose, and more original, you'll see when I talk about agave syrup.
01:23And that's what defines their sweetening power.
01:25The first of the sugar syrups, I'm going to call it like that, that everyone knows, is what we call honey.
01:30Here I took an acacia honey.
01:32You can find it from the extraction of lots of products, lots of flowers, lots of shrubs.
01:37Well, I took the acacia because it's a common honey.
01:40Honey, in this case, is mainly composed of fructose for 38%, glucose 31%, the rest probably in the form of saccharose.
01:49It has a sugary power that is quite strong.
01:52It has a caloric value of 310 calories, which means, roughly speaking, that it will sweeten you things
01:58a third less in equal quantities than a square of sugar.
02:01And that's why, in general, when you put some in, you put a couple of teaspoons in to get that sweetening power.
02:07It's a good product. It has lots of qualities.
02:10I mean, in particular, it's really one of the best treatments for throat pain,
02:14unlike what they say with other syrups, etc.
02:17It's a great treatment for throat pain.
02:19So it's a pretty good product and quite healthy.
02:21The maple syrup contains 33% water, which will justify a caloric value a little lower than that of honey, 268 calories.
02:28And then you're going to get the sweetening power of this product based on two things.
02:33One, its dilution in water.
02:35That is, if there is a lot of water, it will sweeten a little less.
02:38But also the value of the sugar.
02:40For example, if in this syrup we had found fructose, it would have a much stronger sweetening power
02:46because fructose has a stronger sweetening power than sucrose, which is the normal sugar square.
02:51In this case, it is at 66% sucrose.
02:54That is, it will sweeten you like a sugar square.
02:57But you will put a little more in to get the sweetening power.
03:00The only characteristic of these syrups and agave syrup, which I will also talk about,
03:04is that they are supposed to have therapeutic properties.
03:10I don't think so, but they are supposed to.
03:12Because as you have taken water from a bush or a tree, you say that it carries some nutrients.
03:17The third is agave syrup.
03:19It was very fashionable.
03:20It's something I don't quite understand.
03:22It sweetens a lot more, for example, than the other two,
03:24simply because it contains a lot more fructose.
03:27And since fructose has a sweetening power higher than that of sucrose,
03:31we put less in to get the same effect.
03:33However, it contains 25% water.
03:36So that means you will probably put a little less in if you want to sweeten than a sugar square.
03:41But the sweetening power will be higher.
03:43So it will give you the same effect.
03:45Is it interesting?
03:47These supposed therapeutic properties, as we said,
03:50because it has a glycemic index that is not bad because of fructose,
03:54are counterbalanced by the fact that fructose is much more responsible than other sugars
03:59for the phenomenon of fatty liver.
04:01I know you are waiting for agave syrup and agave sugar.
04:04Date syrup is more modern.
04:07How do you make date syrup?
04:08You take dates, heat them, cook them, press them, extract the juice,
04:13concentrate it and you get a sugar syrup.
04:16It has about the same characteristics as the others.
04:19The particularity is that it has more nutrients inside.
04:22Assuming that the dates contain interesting nutrients,
04:25that it has 310 calories,
04:27I can say that it is sensitively comparable to honey.
04:30Maybe it has different properties.
04:32Maybe it will have a slightly different taste.
04:34But you see, we could very well use these 4 syrups in the same way.
04:38The great particularity is, don't believe that these syrups are not sugars.
04:43That's what we're trying to make you believe.
04:45It's false.
04:46They are sugars.
04:47So that means don't try, whether you are diabetic or not,
04:50to think that they are not sugars.
04:52They are sugars.
04:53Diabetic people should not take them.
04:55This is an originality that I found there.
04:57It's ginger syrup.
04:59I liked it because I liked the bottle,
05:01because I found it funny,
05:02because ginger has a lot of qualities.
05:04We find it in a lot of food supplements.
05:06And what we say about ginger is not completely false.
05:09The thing is that they took cane sugar.
05:12Well, it's from cane sugar that glucose syrups are made.
05:15So nothing extraordinary.
05:17And they put 30% ginger in it.
05:19It's a sugar that I would say is flavored.
05:21It's not that bad.
05:23You told me a lot about coconut sugar.
05:25In fact, what is coconut sugar?
05:27We take the coconut flower, we extract the sap from it,
05:30and we take the sugar part.
05:32So that's pure sugar.
05:34There is no difference between this sugar
05:37and powdered sugar that you are going to buy.
05:40It's exactly the same caloric values.
05:42It's exactly the same properties.
05:44Maybe the sugar compounds will be different.
05:46It's exactly the same thing.
05:48Don't get smoked.
05:50It's real sugar.
05:51We address the two sugars that interest you.
05:53What is diacon syrup?
05:54It is a syrup that is obtained from a tuber called earth pear.
05:59It has a lower caloric value than the others.
06:01I think it's around 200 calories for 100 milliliters or 100 grams.
06:06The particularity is that this syrup is much closer.
06:11Not a paste, but not a cream.
06:13It is in the form of syrup.
06:15But its particularity is to contain what are called oligofructosaccharides,
06:21which are products that are poorly digested by our intestines.
06:25This explains the low caloric value of the product.
06:28It has a high sugar content because it contains other sugars.
06:34It's not an uninteresting product.
06:36At first, I thought it was a fantasy.
06:38But this composition of oligofructosaccharides, which are prebiotics,
06:42which will give, a bit like sugar alcohols,
06:45associated with real sugar,
06:47allows it to have a lower caloric value,
06:50to have a real sugar content.
06:52The only problem with this product, which is noticed by all those who consume it,
06:55is its very characteristic taste,
06:57which makes it difficult to consume.
07:00But it's a rather good product, I recognize it.
07:03Then I was told a lot about work sugar.
07:05Well, what is it?
07:07Work sugar is extracted from the tree, from the work.
07:10And in fact, a substance called xylitol is extracted inside,
07:14which is an alcoholic sugar,
07:16whose caloric value is 2.4 calories, but which is poorly digested.
07:19It's a sweetener.
07:21So yes, there is zero sugar.
07:23Irresistible.
07:24You can use it, it's true, to cook.
07:28Yes, but it's a sweetener.
07:30It's called work sugar,
07:32and the term sugar is quite misleading.
07:34It's not a work sugar.
07:36It's work saffron, which has probably been concentrated like the rest.
07:39But it's not a sugar.
07:41It's a sweetener, and it's an alcoholic sugar.
07:44So they should say, work sugar.
07:46And I don't think it's a good idea to let that pass.
07:48To make fun of me, I bought this,
07:50because I thought that in the form of bottles,
07:52we were talking about sugar syrups,
07:54I bought work sugar.
07:56Well, work sugar is an edulcorant, but it's not an alcoholic sugar.
07:58It's the edulcorant that you find in a product
08:00that many people know in the real world.
08:02It's cooked, so it can be put in cakes.
08:04It's not bad, but you can very well buy powder work sugar.
08:07It's exactly the same thing.
08:09There, it's liquid.
08:11Its caloric value is zero calories.
08:13So it's not uninteresting.
08:15So, conclusion.
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