Yup, you guessed it, this post is all about syrup…of the maple variety. I went to the store today to buy some maple syrup for pancakes. Simple task one might think. Find the ‘syrup section’ and you have at least a dozen different choices. Then, something caught my eye. Western Family (the generic brand at this particular store) had a ‘premium’ syrup with 2-percent real maple syrup. Of course, then I was curious what percentage of real maple syrup some of the spendier brands contained. I checked them all, because I was incredulous at what I found. None. No other brand had any real maple syrup in them. One actually contained a little artificial maple flavoring, but that was as good as it got. That amazes me. Only the generic brand even bothered to sell a single bottle with maple syrup in it.
So, what did the others put in their syrup instead? They all contained the same exact two ingredients at the top of the list: corn syrup, and high fructose corn syrup. Needless to say, I don’t need that junk in my body (recent studies indicated that hfcs is linked to diabetes and other disorders), so I found the one sugar-free variety and bought that (it still has 12g of sugar-alcohol, however that works).