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Stevia and Beyond Tangy Tangerine 2.0

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Youngevity attempts to use safe and healthy ingredients when sweetening their products.  Rather than using sugar or unhealthy artificial sweeteners, you will find Stevia or Xylitol as the sugar replacement.   If you have read my blog posts before you know one particular product I enjoy and highly recommend for vitamins and minerals is Beyond Tangy Tangerine 2.0.   BTT is one product that contains Stevia rather than sugar.

What is Stevia?

The following information about Stevia comes from the website: http://globalsteviainstitute.com/consumers/stevia-story/what-is-stevia/

Stevia is a naturally sourced, zero-calorie sweetener that has been used as a natural sugar substitute and flavoring ingredient for hundreds of years. Stevia is a natural origin plant extract from the leaves of the stevia plant.

The stevia plant was first scientifically recorded in 1899 as Eupatorium rebaudianum by Moises Santiago de Bertoni, in Paraguay. In 1905, it was later defined as Stevia Rebaudiana, a member of the sunflower (Asteraceae) family and related to the Chrysanthemum.

Is Stevia Safe and Healthy?

The sweet tasting components of stevia are called steviol glycosides, which are naturally present in the stevia leaf.   Purified stevia leaf extracts can contain one steviol glycoside or several different glycosides, which can be up to 400 times sweeter than sugar.

Stevia has also been well studied and approved for the whole family, including pregnant women and those with diabetes.

High purity stevia leaf extracts are used as plant-based, zero-calorie sweetening ingredients around the world. These extracts, chemically known as steviol glycosides, have been rigorously tested in over 200 peer-reviewed published research studies and deemed safe for human consumption

Regulatory agencies around the world have also concluded that high purity stevia leaf extract is safe for use as a sweetener for the general population. In 2008 and 2009 respectively, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Food and Agriculture Organization/World Health Organization’s Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), a global panel of food ingredient safety experts, approved high purity steviol glycosides for human consumption as a non-medical ingredient, and developed an Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI).

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Source:  http://globalsteviainstitute.com/consumers/stevia-story/what-is-stevia/

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Is Xylitol Sugar? Xylitol, Sugar, and Youngevity’s Root Beer Belly

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Xylitol and Root Beer Belly

Many Youngevity products including famous Root Beer Belly Probiotic replace the use of sugar and artificial sweeteners with Xylitol.   So what is Xylitol? Is it healthy?

Note: The following information comes from the website Xylitol.org.  I encourage to you to check out their site for more detailed information about Xylitol. 

Is Xylitol Sugar?

Xylitol is a naturally occurring carbohydrate, that looks and tastes just like regular table sugar. It is a natural sweetener that can be extracted from any woody fibrous plant material. Commercially it is extracted from renewable resources such as corn cobs, and also from less environmentally sustainable sources such as hardwood. Xylitol also occurs naturally in our bodies – in fact, an average size adult manufactures up to 15 grams of xylitol daily during normal metabolism. Pure xylitol is a white crystalline substance that looks and tastes like sugar.

Why Use Xylitol rather than sugar?  

Xylitol has a delicious, sweet taste, and no unpleasant aftertaste! Xylitol has about a third the calories as table sugar, and is a healthy alternative for diabetics. Not only does it make an excellent sugar substitute, but it aids in the prevention of dental caries, and reduces plaque formation.

Where does Xylitol come from?

Xylitol is found widely in nature, most of the fruits and vegetables that we eat on a daily basis have small amounts of xylitol. For commercial purposes xylitol comes from two sources: corncobs or trees. Even though the end resulting product is the same, the process to extract it from these two sources is not.

Corncobs are our preferred source for xylitol, it is much more sustainable and environmentally friendly. Corncobs are a renewable resource and are normally waste at the end of the season. Using corncobs that take 5 months to grow as a source for xylitol is much more sustainable than using trees that take 20 years to grow as a source for xylitol.

Xylitol is a safe, healthy alternative to regular sugar.   If you haven’t tried any Youngevity products before such as Root Beer Belly, why not contact me today and check out GetYour90.com to see if this opportunity business is for you.

Featured Sources:  Xylitol.org