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Lontar Sugar
Sweet Goodness. Steady Energy. Great Taste!
Harvested by smallholder farmers, YAVA’s Lontar Sugar with a clean and delicious flavor — the sweet with steady energy.
Stable Energy
Better Choice
When you eat a High-Glycemic Index (High-GI) food, your blood sugar rises higher and quicker (jumps!) and declines faster (crashes!) (and so you feel low-energy and hungry sooner!) compared to if you eat a Low Glycemic Index (Low-GI) food.
Why is More Steady
Blood Sugar Important?
Research shows that a diet that supports stable blood sugar levels (Low Glycemic Index) reduces the incidence of diet-related diseases, including:
Obesity
Type 2 Diabetes
Gestational Diabetes
Metabolic Syndrome
PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome)
Heart Disease & StrokeNourishing You
The YAVA Way
All of YAVA's foods (Granola + Bar) use Lontar Sugar and ingredients like whole grain oats and cashews, that together create a Low-GI recipe, for steady blood sugar. Take a look :
Even a 10-point difference on the GI scale significantly impacts your body.
More About
Lontar Sugar Nutrition
Amounts of minerals (Regular sugar contains nearly none!) :
Compared to Regular sugar, Lontar Sugar has healthy amounts of minerals.
Comparisons, gram for gram vs bananas:
2.5X more potassium.
50X more calcium (and similar to almonds).
Lontar Palm Tree
Where & How Lontar Sugar is Made
Lontar Sugar is made by evaporating nectar from the lontar tree.
Lontar trees are commonly found in the dry regions of eastern Indonesia.
Small-scale farmers collect the nectar by climbing lontar trees. Lontar Sugar is harvested from naturally grown trees.
From evaporated lontar nectar (also known as "juru" or Lontar Sugar), YAVA creates a new source of income for low-income rural farmers.
Fun Facts
Lontar Nectar
- A farmer must climb a 15-30m palm tree every day to collect palm nectar!
- It takes over 7 liters of palm nectar to make 1kg of Palm Sugar!
- Lontar Palm trees can live for over 100 years!
