It's on the gur jar and the honey bottle. We checked what natural means.
Read the guideA spoon of gur in your chai
The minerals are real. In a teaspoon they are tiny next to the sugar.
Gur, honey, datesRaw dates score 42, which is low. GI says how fast, not how much: the sugar arrives slowly, not that there is less of it.
The GI numbersMonk fruit, 2017
In 30 healthy men a monk fruit drink caused none; sugar did, in the first hour. We found no trial in people with diabetes.
Monk fruitA pinch of extract cannot fill a spoon, so something does, often erythritol. More than half the monk fruit powders we checked had it.
Read the labelSo, natural means fine?
Monk fruit and stevia add little or no sugar. Gur and honey are sugar, whatever the jar says.
Our pick, and whyOn an Indian label, yes. The article says why, and when it earns a place in your baking.
From The Sweet Change
Monk Fruit Drops
Monk fruit extract, water and vitamin C
Monk Fruit Powder
Monk fruit, guar fibre and allulose, no erythritol