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No, our products are low in sugar. If milk containers were required to show contents, Lactose, a simple sugar, would be number one. We choose natural sugars that help stabilize carbohydrate energy and blood sugar. None of our sugars are processed using methods that produce an unnatural or unhealthy finished product. Herbs, extracts, dried fruit, fruit juice and breads are all processed or refined in some way. The question we ask is: is there anything in the processing procedure that would make the end product unhealthy? Some things are over-processed and unnaturally refined to the point of losing nutritional value or having unhealthy residuals. We don't use bleached white sucrose and that is the primary sweetener for the majority of Americans.
Our primary sweetener is unrefined Organic Cane Juice that has been evaporated. Cane juice still contains minerals, potassium, calcium and iron. Our complex carbohydrates come from Maltodextrins, Oligodextrins, Brown Rice Syrup, Tapioca Food Starch and Chicory Root. Our milk alternatives are 60% complex to provide stable time released energy. In our meal replacement we use Dextrose and Fructose along with Evaporated Cane Juice. Dextrose (grape sugar) is the easiest form of sugar for the body to convert to Glucose, and Fructose (fruit sugar) is sweeter per calorie and helps bridge the gap between simple and complex carbohydrates because it raises and lowers blood sugar at an equal rate without stimulating overproduction of insulin. Fructose allows you to use less total sugar because it is sweeter and reduces calories. Honey, for example is fructose and sucrose combined. Doctors recommend our product's carbohydrate package to many diabetics.
The difference between carbohydrates and sugars on food labels is widely misunderstood. Simple sugar is listed under sugars, complex sugar is listed under total carbohydrates, which includes both. Our bodies are fueled by carbon based foods. The far majority of calories in fruits and vegetables come from sugars. A diet too low in sugars, especially complex sugars, is not natural to humans. The healthy plants on this Earth all provide an abundance of carbohydrates. Human milk is about 80% carbohydrate. Is orange juice, apple juice, carrot juice, potato juice and watermelon juice healthy? Absolutely. The sugars you get in our products are the same as you find in those fruits and vegetables. Typically a glass of orange juice will have a total of about 35g of carbohydrates, mostly in the form of fructose. Our soymilk has 9g, mostly in the form of Malto and Oligodextrins and 40% organic cane juice (raw sucrose).
Our products have less total sugar and better balanced carbohydrates than any other brand of soymilk we've seen. They are also excellent sports beverages because of the complex carbohydrates, vitamin and mineral content.
