Ever wonder what sugars are in coconut milk? I know it doesn't have very much, or I wouldn't have to add dates to make yogurt. But the exact composition was a mystery to me, and I've spent several hours looking for it, never finding it... UNTIL TODAY. I found this Australian Food Standards website.
The website gives the composition of coconut cream, defined as the liquid extract of mature coconut meat, presumably not using water. So it's more concentrated than coconut milk, but if you pro-rate it it works out to, per 100 grams coconut milk:
Fructose, 0.1 g
Glucose, 0.3 g
Sucrose, 1.6 g
Total: 2 g, which is the amount listed on the box of Aroy-D coconut milk on my shelf.
So there it is: coconut milk contains sucrose, theoretically not allowed on GAPS. But it's a very small amount compared to most fruits, including bananas (6.5g of sucrose!). There's a great table showing the breakdown of sugars for a long list of fruits here.
Dried dates have about 60g sugar per 100g, which is usually pretty evenly divided between fructose and glucose, and that's what make them a good sweetener for GAPSters.
Thanks, I looked all over the internet for this info too. I appreciated finding it here!
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