Agave Nectar Source
I have changed to using only agave nectar for sweetner in our foods. I have only found it available locally in small size containers. It is unreasonably expensive that way… not to mention that I seem to run out frequently. It takes 2 containers just to make one recipe of Almond Joy! I saw you using a gallon size container in your new YouTube and was wondering where we can get it in that quantity.
Lynn
PS Since I am always a little short on time, I was wondering if the almonds in your Almond Joy Fudge, have to be dehydreated once sprouted or can they just be towel dried the morning after soaking, chopped and added immediately?
I’ve recently read that agave isn’t any better for you than other high fructose sweeteners, and that some companies in Mexico actually cut their agave with HFC (high fructose corn syrup) because it’s cheaper. I wonder if this is true? If this IS true I wouldn’t use agave because HFC items have recently been found to contain mercury….
Lynn, yes, you can do your almonds like that, but remember, if you didn’t get your almonds truly RAW through my buying co-op recently, they are pasteurized, so soaking them is pointless.
We do cases of 4 gals. of agave in our group buys here locally and I’m working on opening it up to all of you, outside the U.S.
TL, read back a few weeks in this blog where I addressed that question about agave / HFCS.
Thank you Robyn. I did find a source of ‘non-pasteurized raw almonds’ at
http://www.nutsonline.com/nuts/almonds/
I understand that they are probably more expensive than through your source but until another batch is available from you, do you think I can trust that they are really non-pasteurized?
I wondered what you thought about this – http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2008/11/17/agave_nectar_the_high_fructose_health_food_fraud.htm
Fiona – I was really troubled by that article. I am SO easily swayed! Apparently, the article is full of logical holes and is a ‘shotgun’ attack on all Agave-based products. This blog entry has a response directly from the president of Madhava, Craig Gerbore – http://alteredplates.blogspot.com/2008/12/madhavas-craig-gerbore-responds-to.html
(Robyn summarized the response from Craig Gerbore in this blog entry –> http://greensmoothiegirl.com/?p=373 and one of her commenters supplied the link to the entire response. Robyn also wrote another entry about Agave back in November –> http://greensmoothiegirl.com/?p=352)
Thanks Katie, for taking the trouble to reply with that information. I feel less confused now!