ผลการเปรยบเทยบความชอบรสชาตของขนมหมอแกงทใชนวตกรรมนำตาลธรรมชาตหายากกบนำตาลท ใชทวไปในทองตลาด : การทดลองเพอเปนแนวทางการลดการบรโภคนำตาลของประชาชน

The World Health Organization has made a suggestion to reduce daily sugar intake from 10% to less than five percent of total energy intake. However, sugar consumption of Thai people is four times the recommended amount from the World Health Organization and gradually increasing. Sugar consumption increases the risk of weight gain and Noncommunicable Diseases. “Khanom mor gaeng” is a traditional Thai custard. It can be thought of as a representative Thai dessert. It is made from eggs, coconut milk, flour, and sugars. Rare Sugar Syrup is an innovative functional sweetener which consists of 70% D-glucose/Dfructose and 12-13% of rare sugars including D-allulose, an epimer of D-fructose possessing anti-diabetic and anti-obesity functions. Rare Sugar Syrup can be claimed to have reduced calories with lower glycemic index compared to corn syrup and regular sugar. This study aimed to evaluate Thai consumers’ preferences for Thai custard in which sugar was partially replaced by Rare Sugar Syrup. We cooked a modified prototype Thai custard in which 50% of the palm sugar and regular sugar were replaced by Rare Sugar Syrup. We surveyed 313 participants for their opinion and compared between the low calorie rare sugar Thai custard and the normal Thai custard with paired t-test. The results indicated no significant differences between the two Thai custards regarding color, texture, sweetness, and overall preference, with the exception of egg smell and tastiness. Our results confirmed Rare Sugar Syrup can be a healthy substitute for regular sugar without reducing Thai people’s preference. The wide usage of Rare Sugar Syrup in various desserts and beverages and thus nurses play a crucial role in motivation behavioral changes in dietary consumption, fostering self-care motivation, supporting self-management, and enabling individuals to maintain theirhealth, thereby may contributing to the prevention of non-communicable diseases in the Thai population.