In an effort to reduce total caloric content, while delivering a delicious product, many large companies have turned to a myriad of sugar substitutes.
While some of these options mitigate the health side effects associated with traditional, bleached white sugar, few offer the same spectrum of benefits of Stevia. In regards to its cost to sweetness ratio, its nutritional content, and its wide availability, Stevia is the best sugar replacement.
Dure Foods also relies on the healthy benefits of Stevia in it’s own Lifestyle Products.
This is in part due to how it is sourced, a naturally occurring compound present in a variety of small flowering plants endemic to South America. These members of the Astreceae family contain a glucose-like molecule which tastes sweet but does not affect blood sugar.
Additionally, they contain a spectrum of other compounds which have well researched health benefits.
1) Losing Weight
Because Stevia can be more than forty times sweeter than sugar, depending on whether it is in a concentrated form or natural dried-leaf, it can help ween consumers off of other sweet foods.
This is complemented by that fact that stevia contains little to no caloric content. It can even be baked and cooked into products without the active chemicals breaking down.
2) Antioxidant Content
Unlike processed, white sugar, Stevia-containing plants also contain a collection of antioxidant compounds such as tannins and flavonoids among others. Antioxidants have been documented as having important health functions: preventing healthy cells from turning cancerous and helping to strengthen the immune system.
3) Clear, Healthy Skin
Some of the active chemicals in Stevia plants are Vitamin A and C. These components, along with a number of others, have been proven to increase overall skin health. Additionally, the antibacterial and anti-fungal properties of the Stevia plant have also been proven to treat skin conditions such as acne.
4) Diabetes Symptoms
Because the constituent chemicals in Stevia that make it sweet do not enter the blood stream, thus making it an ideal replacement for sucrose. For people with Diabetes or on sugar-free diets, Stevia can be a viable alternative that won’t induce dangerous side-effects.
5) Cost of Stevia
Despite the overall higher price by volume of Stevia compared to conventional, white sugar, the potency and effective quantity make it dramatically more affordable. This is because of the drastic difference in the amount of Stevia needed to produce the same sweetness.
Refined Sugar is not only more expensive than Stevia, but it comes with a litany of health side effects which may include diabetes, or even an addiction to the common confection.
Stevia, in contrast, can be used as a sugar substitute to provide a more satisfying level of sweetness without the complications and calories commonly associated with it.
Finally, the actual, positive health effects which are related to the nutrients found in Stevia make it a healthy replacement for a normally unhealthy flavour. These include high antioxidant content, and essential vitamins necessary for a healthy complexion and body.
Whether you are a customer looking to cut calories, or a business looking to lower costs and increase quality, Stevia is a viable option.
Choose Dure Foods’ certified highest quality products for your dietary fitness needs. For more information, contact us here.
Top 5 Benefits Of Stevia
in General News/by Dure FoodsIn an effort to reduce total caloric content, while delivering a delicious product, many large companies have turned to a myriad of sugar substitutes.
While some of these options mitigate the health side effects associated with traditional, bleached white sugar, few offer the same spectrum of benefits of Stevia. In regards to its cost to sweetness ratio, its nutritional content, and its wide availability, Stevia is the best sugar replacement.
Dure Foods also relies on the healthy benefits of Stevia in it’s own Lifestyle Products.
This is in part due to how it is sourced, a naturally occurring compound present in a variety of small flowering plants endemic to South America. These members of the Astreceae family contain a glucose-like molecule which tastes sweet but does not affect blood sugar.
Additionally, they contain a spectrum of other compounds which have well researched health benefits.
1) Losing Weight
Because Stevia can be more than forty times sweeter than sugar, depending on whether it is in a concentrated form or natural dried-leaf, it can help ween consumers off of other sweet foods.
This is complemented by that fact that stevia contains little to no caloric content. It can even be baked and cooked into products without the active chemicals breaking down.
2) Antioxidant Content
Unlike processed, white sugar, Stevia-containing plants also contain a collection of antioxidant compounds such as tannins and flavonoids among others. Antioxidants have been documented as having important health functions: preventing healthy cells from turning cancerous and helping to strengthen the immune system.
3) Clear, Healthy Skin
Some of the active chemicals in Stevia plants are Vitamin A and C. These components, along with a number of others, have been proven to increase overall skin health. Additionally, the antibacterial and anti-fungal properties of the Stevia plant have also been proven to treat skin conditions such as acne.
4) Diabetes Symptoms
Because the constituent chemicals in Stevia that make it sweet do not enter the blood stream, thus making it an ideal replacement for sucrose. For people with Diabetes or on sugar-free diets, Stevia can be a viable alternative that won’t induce dangerous side-effects.
5) Cost of Stevia
Despite the overall higher price by volume of Stevia compared to conventional, white sugar, the potency and effective quantity make it dramatically more affordable. This is because of the drastic difference in the amount of Stevia needed to produce the same sweetness.
Refined Sugar is not only more expensive than Stevia, but it comes with a litany of health side effects which may include diabetes, or even an addiction to the common confection.
Stevia, in contrast, can be used as a sugar substitute to provide a more satisfying level of sweetness without the complications and calories commonly associated with it.
Finally, the actual, positive health effects which are related to the nutrients found in Stevia make it a healthy replacement for a normally unhealthy flavour. These include high antioxidant content, and essential vitamins necessary for a healthy complexion and body.
Whether you are a customer looking to cut calories, or a business looking to lower costs and increase quality, Stevia is a viable option.
Choose Dure Foods’ certified highest quality products for your dietary fitness needs. For more information, contact us here.
Brand Owners: Discovering Untapped Opportunities In Outsourcing
in General News, Trends, Facts and Fun!/by Dure FoodsOutsourcing is recognized as an essential step in increasing market share and production capacity of a small to medium sized business. This is largely due to the variety of opportunities which become accessible to brand owners after they delegate a portion of business processes to an external agency.
While the most obvious example may be the reduction in costs associated with lower priced labor or materials, this is only one aspect of the complex commercial agreements which comprise the notion of outsourcing.
If properly orchestrated, outsourcing can portend a multi-stage evolution of business, centered on:
Outsourcing New Markets
Outsourcing offers the unique opportunity of leveraging new points of production to interact with alternate markets. One key aspect of outsourcing is the possibility of partnering with an agency which can also assist in penetrating multiple markets.
Additionally, having a local, trusted organization behind your product will likely offer any distribution channels which that organization relies on. This means that a well-designed outsourcing agreement will ensure the Brand Owners products are being manufactured correctly, and effectively distributed in key, new markets.
Increase Brand Owner Resources
The resources associated with manufacturing can sometimes be staggering, associated with facility costs, direct labor, and indirect labor costs. Partnering with an expert manufacturer will remove the capital restrictions required to procure, operate, and maintain the manufacturing process.
This does two important things. First, it offers brand owners the increased opportunity to spend time growing their business in other ways. Secondly, it reduces the burdens associated with these responsibilities.
Essentially, the risks and rewards are shared between the brand owners and the company outsourcing. This can prove to be essentially important for smaller businesses who would benefit greatly from a shift in expenditure from manufacturing to sales or advertising.
Outsourcing and Product Development
On the one hand, the goal of outsourcing is to find a manufacturer to produce your product as you have designed, but what if there is a better way? Outsourcing can offer some unique opportunities surrounding product development which can be associated with the expertise and experience of the outsourcing company.
In other words, part of a partnership with an external agency is that you get the benefits of their manufacturing skills. This may mean that a locally produced material in the manufacturers region, which is not accessible to brand owners, may be a better solution.
Likewise, costly production equipment which would have been out of a brand owners price range could become available. In many ways, choosing a high-quality outsourcing organization can lead to dramatic changes in product development.
Should I Outsource?
The question of outsourcing is a widely debated political topic, but in this increasingly globalized world, it is an essential step in the expansion of up and coming businesses.
Dure Foods is fully capable of not only helping you outsource your product, but also strengthen your brand presence with custom formulations aimed directly at your client profile.
Outsourcing offers brand owners a variety of opportunities which would be otherwise inaccessible, and will prove to benefit not only the bottom line, but also the satisfaction of their customers.
Choose Dure Foods’ certified highest quality products for your dietary fitness needs. For more information, contact us here.