Palm Sugar is a sweetener that is made from the sap present in the flower buds of the coconut palm tree. It is known as natural sugar because it involves minimum processing and no chemicals are used. The sap from the tree is heated to wick away the moisture content until a thick syrup is obtained, and this sweet nectar is then further reduced to crystals. Palm sugar is available in the block, granular form.
1. As Cancer killer substances
Cancer is one of rare disease that caused by a lot of factor, but sometimes cancer cell is a “strange” cell that can killed by antioxidants. After some research from researcher and the expert in their field of interests, nipa palm fruits contain a very good antioxidants.The antioxidants inside of nipa palm’s fruit more higher than antioxidants score in vitamin C and vitamin A in any others fruits.
there are two kinds of antioxidant...
- Natural Antioxidants
Some kinds of native good substances be found in plants or fruits that useful to prevent, reduce or slow down a symptom of disease within our body, defending from free radicals, kill harmful toxins that can not be consumed by the body and kill cancer cells that develop in our body. - Synthetic Antioxidants
Antioxidants that created from chemistry reaction. But for your information, this type of antioxidants is not good for our body. So the best choices is eat some fruits or vegetables which have a high native antioxidants.
2. Defending from Free Radical
Because of a lot of antioxidants inside the fruit of nipa palm and the antioxidants from nipa palm fruits are natural antioxidants, this can be as one of prevent from free radical. Free radical can cause any disease, just like heart attack, kidney disorder, etc
3. As Cough Medicine
As cough medicine, part of nipa palm tree that in need is the fresh young leaf. The tools that you need are a knife, a mortar and pestle or some kind like that, a glass, a filter tools and a spoon. The additional ingredients which need to be added is a little natural honey and a little water (optional). The steps are :
- Cut off the fresh young leaf of nipa palm.
- Mashed up the fresh young leaf until smooth.
- Filter it and put in a glass. If it’s too thick, you can add a little water to get essence of fresh young leaf nipa palm.
- Add some natural honey and mix it with spoon.
- The herbal potion ready to drink.
4. Treat Diabetes
5. Lowering Blood Pressure
6. Lowering Cholesterol and Treat Heart Disease
7. Stabilize Body Temperature
Health Benefits of Palm Sugar:
- Palm sugar is an unrefined sugar, it is known to be rich in vitamins and minerals.
- It contains minerals like potassium, phosphorus, zinc, iron, manganese and copper.
- Palm sugar also contains a dietary fiber called inulin, which is known to keep a check on blood sugar levels
- It is rich in B vitamins, especially inositol (Vit8) which is needed for the formation of healthy cells, as well as thiamine, riboflavin, folic acid and choline
- It contains Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins and are needed for cell growth and repair
