"Nature's Best Sugar?" TAGA...What? TAGATOSE
Albert Wong
Continuous Glucose Monitors l OTTAI CGM Official Affiliate & Distribution Partner l Malaysia
What? In this world? How? Why is it define as Best? Isn't sugar, no matter how there camouflage into 60 different types of names...are still sugar, after all.
Isn't Sugar, by now being place into all kind of food, cornering us at every movement we make, online or offline. We can't even escape them from our dreams... The Sweet & Delicious Chocolate Cake, that we crave and tucked in yesterday...
Isn't Sugar is the cause of most, if not all the Cardiovascular Diseases, that kicks in this generation? The millions that spend everyday of their life attending dialysis therapy, as their kidneys does not function no more? What about the scores of thousands, that have their leg or legs amputated, daily? How many woke up one day, and can't see anymore, because there had gone blind? Heart Attacks, to surprising looking ordinary folks, happens at every minute. What about the ever increasing of people, suddenly starts to loose memory even of their most love ones? And people gotten diagnosed with the disease called Cancer....
Had 'Mother Nature' forgotten to gift us the ' Good Sugar'?? We, through life experiences knew and understands the existence of the 'Good and the Bad', the 'Right and the Left', the ' Head and the Tail'....every side, have a flip side.
Sugar is no different. Every 'Bad Sugar', there is the 'Good Sugar' to be discover.
Finally, the 'Good Sugar' was discovered by Dr Gilbert V. Levin, Ph.D, of Spherix Incorporated, a NASA collaboration Spin Off.
- TAGATOSE, the New GRAS Sweetener and Health Product
Tagatose, a low-calorie, full-bulk natural sugar, has just attained GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) status under U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, thereby permitting its use as a sweetener in foods and beverages. This paper presents all current aspects of tagatose with respect to demonstrated food and beverage applications and the potential health and medical benefits of this unique substance. Summarized studies are referenced to detailed peer-reviewed papers. The safety studies followed the recommendations in the FDA "Red Book." Results were submitted to an Expert Panel for determination of GRAS status under FDA regulation. Small phase 2 clinical trials showed tagatose to be effective in treating type 2 diabetes. The results, buttressed by the references cited, support the efficacy of the various applications disclosed for tagatose. Tagatose has been found to be safe and efficacious for use as a low-calorie, full-bulk sweetener in a wide variety of foods, beverages, health foods, and dietary supplements. It fills broad, heretofore unmet needs for a low-calorie sweetener in products in which the bulk of sugar is important, such as chocolates, chewing gum, cakes, ice cream, and frosted cereals. Its synergism with high-intensity sweeteners also makes it useful in sodas. Various health and medical benefits are indicated, including the treatment of type 2 diabetes, hyperglycemia, anemia, and hemophilia and the improvement of fetal development.