Sugars Found in Mexican Tequila May be Beneficial to Weight-Loss and Treating Diabetes Neal Baker - The Drinks Business
go to original June 6, 2015

Time to raise your glass, and prepare the lime as drinking tequila may help you fight obesity and type 2 diabetes. (IB Times))

While not normally considered part of a healthy diet, scientists have discovered that the sugars found in Tequila may be beneficial to weight-loss and treating diabetes.

Sugars called agavins, derived from the agave plant used to make the Mexican spirit, could lower blood glucose levels for type 2 diabetes sufferers and help obese people shed weight.

In research presented to the American Chemical Society, a team of biochemical scientists from Guanajuato, Mexico fed a group of mice a standard diet and added agavins to their daily water. The team weighed the mice daily and checked their glucose blood levels weekly.

Most mice that drank agavins ate less, lost weight and their blood glucose levels decreased when compared to other sweeteners such glucose, fructose, sucrose, agave syrup and aspartame, they said.

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