XUCKER is with me now firmly in the food was and the new secret weapon in the coffee.
After several - not just cheap - experiments with Stevia (products) I ended up with xylitol / Xucker and have this kilo box after initial skepticism but ratzfatz consumed (1 month). First of all only for (the) coffee and now and then for cooking. (For me the jaws is Xucker too expensive for dough he is not already suitable 100%.)
[Note: A comparison of stevia products with Xucker is inappropriate because Xucker can not be described as low in calories ... so far is Xucker -> * NO * sweetness with no regrets.]
I had, though I have heard or read a lot about it, a skeptical attitude to this sort sweetener (I call him once so), which already begins with the exotic word xylitol, which indeed sounds like more * * Mordant, so unhealthy chemicals , But once you think about clever, xylitol is not new and - apart from the elaborate production - just not a natural product like our ordinary table sugar (which also grows not in crystal form on a plant :-)!
What is xylitol (ol)? (Source: wikipedia.de)
> Xylitol was first isolated in 1890 by Emil Fischer and his PhD Rudolf Stahel beechwood chips.> Industrially xylitol is obtained by chemical modification of xylans (wood rubber) over the wood sugar xylose. The industrial production is complex, Xylitol is a relatively expensive sugar substitute. Today the extraction often takes place in the remains of corn cobs after harvesting the grains. Another possible use of the genetically modified maize.
Potential sticking point with this product, which should exercise a healthy skepticism is that industrial giants that make us of genetically engineered maize dependent, thus supported, because the potential is so given: corncobs to consider rather than waste usually, can still Barem (= xylitol) are processed.
The information that the Xucker manufacturers (Kiwikawa) printed on its products, I find, therefore, important:
(+++) Are not produced from genetically modified maize.
(It's one of the reasons why I have not let myself to other xylitol products.)
The sticking point in Xucker is after my deeming currently just the price. Even if I buy the 4.5 kg package, I find it more than painfully expensive.
Concerning the nature of Xuckers:
(+/-) Powdered crystal, but seemed a bit damp, not as good as trickles caster sugar.
(+/-) The Xucker clumped easy, but can be just as easily removed again
(+) The box is really practical
(+) No impurities.
To taste:
(+++) If you "take it straight into his mouth, it tastes pleasantly sweet, but also acts a little cooling, a little bit different as normal sugar that's - but comparable sweet!
I recognize except the comparable Zuckersüße no further (secondary) taste.
-> Clean subjective Note: am excited about the pure Xucker flavor. (He is not to be compared with all stevia stuff that ever found shelter me.)
For quantity comparability with sugar and calories love:
(+++) Xucker has 40% less calories than sugar, but can be used from the crowd absolutely equivalent.
To use:
(+) Absolutely suitable for coffee or tea.
(+) To sweeten China-pans (homemade sauces) very suitable.
(+) Baking (sponge, sponge) - no problem!
(+/-) Baking (dough) - here you have to (also available in the product description) to add sugar!
For health and dental care:
Whether this is actually sugar tooth-friendly, I can neither confirm nor refute and parrot butt I want because certainly nothing.
Everything I have read so far in literature about sounds pretty nice and promising, but credible facts and studies have not came to me so far in front of his eyes.
Price:
(-) I bought this box still savings SUBSCRIPTION range of about 11,50 and this Sparabo in 3 or perhaps 2-month-rhythm could have stayed loyal, but unfortunately it is currently playing past with saving offer and you the price must again observe for a while, if it again comes into the region of 12 euros. And I feel just as painfully expensive ...
The alternative is to date (which can here change at any time), the 4.5 kg box!
For a kilo price of a maximum of 5 euros I might consider doing the normal sugar completely on Xucker / switch xylitol. (We currently are still far away from such prices ...)
What is important to me?
I want to rely on a food. I expect that at least it no longer hurts me when it uses! Exactly this my expectations I see fulfilled in Xucker / xylitol. The product has no suspicion somehow to be carcinogenic as other sweetener substitutes and it does not have this caustic-irritating aftertaste like stevia (extracts).
I thus reducing a little the calories I eat - especially since I renounce unwilling to unsweetened coffee! (Especially since I this 5: 2 diet (Intermittent Fasting) do, I use Xucker, even if you thus saving very little calories.
*****
Overall rating:
Although I did not have the dental care aspect in the foreground (because I because after several months no changes notice) and even though I feel the product as a painfully expensive (for this kilo package xylitol I got 20 kilo packages of sugar!) --- Let I all these critical areas left out, because ...
... (To be used as sugar) calorie savings (40% in comparison with sugar), flavor, consistency and problematic benefit ahead.
Of that I am, after all, so convinced that I have then bought the 4.5 kilo box, from which one can indeed very well top up this blue box or in a glass reservoir.
*****
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February 2015 - one more tip for "bakers":
The Kindle eBook Cookies without sugar: Baking with xylitol, stevia & Co - including Bonus Chapter:. Cookies without sugar I find worth mentioning. The author has extensively studied the sugar substitute xylitol and erythritol also, and uses for its recipes these two sugar substitutes. Although My Erfolgserlebnsisse are still modest, but even so worth reading and offers many baking recipes also many inspirations (chocolate spread establish themselves, or Vanillexucker). In addition, a critical analysis of sugar substitute for baking, as well as authentic sounding experience.
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