Natural Sweetener Smack Down: Agave

August 17, 2011
By Alexandra Jamieson

Human beings are built with a taste for sweetness – it’s in our DNA. We crave sweetness because mother’s milk is sweet, and we’re programmed to crave sweet carbohydrates so the human species will survive. When we were all still living off the land, hunting and gathering in the wilderness, sweet foods were safe to eat – poisonous foods are generally bitter. In the last 200 years, humans have gotten really good at growing crops… Read More >