XUCKER is with me for over a year firmly in food ingredients and the new secret weapon in the coffee. My extensive review XUCKER products was due to my interest, that there is a premium version in addition to the fine and coarse-grained XUCKER this manufacturer, dropped me a few months ago due to research and some criticism to xylitol from corn cobs on. The differences between the cheaper variety I want right at the beginning of the evaluation show:
The XUCKER in the blue packaging (fine grain) or the green (grainy) is made from corn cobs and very noisy pack in CHINA.
Who would not like this - it may be purely a matter of opinion, or have other reasons - is in the RED Packaging Xucker Premium xylitol in a can, 1er Pack (1 x 1 kg) / 4.5 kg Xucker 100% Finnish xylitol in an alternative box which is made of beech and birch and in Europe (Finland). (At least this is the manufacturer's information that way.)
I've gotten a 4.5kg box XUCKER PREMIUM * consumed * and only found immediately differences in consistency.
(+) XUCKER PREMIUM trickles better / less clumped.
(+/-) That XUCKER PREMIUM affects less laxative, I can not confirm or disprove, since I thus no * problems * had with the other XUCKER products.
(+/-) XUCKER PREMIUM (red packaging) is logically a little more expensive, the prices vary here but every now and up and down, so that observation of the supply situation is worthwhile. ;-)
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Now at length my reasons PRO XUCKER / XYLITOL - regardless from which it is produced:
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:
(+) Of the fine (blue packaging) - and coarse (green packaging) XUCKER is not produced from genetically modified maize.
(+++) The PREMIUM XUCKER is made of beech and birch wood, in Finland.
(The Case of the corn was long for me one reason why I am not wanted to get involved in other xylitol products.)
The sticking point in Xucker is after my deeming currently even 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. PREMIUM trickles even better than the corn XUCKER that I have tasted.
(+/-) Also PREMIUM Xucker clumped minimal, but the lumps dissolve easily.
(+) The can is super handy plastic box (4.5) kg as well.
(+) 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.
For 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:
(- / +) The 4,5kg box costs around 50 euros. In my estimation, this is not much more than the corn-Xucker variants.
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 ... If you use this product with conviction, the price may be rather trivial.)
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 am now switched to the 4.5 kilo box XYLITOL PRTEMIUM, from which one can indeed quite good refill the previous 1kg cans or a 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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PS. To submit a comprehensive review with tips and experiences is an effort, many of the benefits, so I find a feedback motivating --- even better: Be self-reviews. ;-)
