What is the source of the sweetener in Agel products?
It is crystalline fructose. Instead of artificial sweeteners, fructose (crystalline, not high fructose corn syrup) is a natural sweetener. Crystalline fructose is a sugar made from corn that has a low glycemic index (GI) and therefore doesn’t cause the larger rise in blood sugar that table sugar (sucrose) does. Using fructose as a natural sweetener instead of sugar may help decrease caloric intake, since it is 1.5 times as sweet as table sugar, but has the same caloric density. In other words, instead of three teaspoons of sugar, you need only two teaspoons of fructose to achieve the same level of sweet taste.
