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Maple syrup is a sweet breakfast food that contains antioxidants. But how healthy is maple syrup and is it healthier than honey? Nutritionists explain.
A sugar maple tree. Three species of maple trees are predominantly used to produce maple syrup: the sugar maple (Acer saccharum), [5] [6] the black maple (), [5] [7] and the red maple (), [5] [8] because of the high sugar content (roughly two to five per cent) in the sap of these species. [9]
Sugar beet syrup (Zuckerrübensirup in German) is made from the tuberous roots of the sugar beet (Beta vulgaris). [8] Sugar beet molasses, a by-product of the processing to make refined sugar, also exists but is mainly used for animal feed. [9] Yacón syrup is made from the tuberous roots of yacón (Smallanthus sonchifolius). [10] Sweet Cicely root
Maple beer – by fermenting the sugar in maple syrup to replace malt and other components, craft brewers create an ale with noticeable maple tones that is often reinforced in sweetness with residual sugars. [7] However, due to maple syrup being more expensive than traditional sources of sugar, this beverage is considered more of a delicacy. [8]
For most healthy people, consuming a small amount of sugar (less than 5% of total daily calorie intake) is probably better for you than loading up on artificial sweeteners and other sugar substitutes.
Natural non-sugar sweeteners also exist, [1] such as glycyrrhizin found in liquorice. [2] Sugar [1] Sugar alcohol; Sucrose, or glucose-fructose, commonly called table sugar. Fructose, or fruit sugar; Glucose, or dextrose; Sugar substitute, including artificial sweetener [1] Syrups. Agave syrup, or agave nectar [1] Maple syrup [1] Corn syrup
That overly sweet breakfast syrup has nothing on the pure goodness of real maple syrup that comes straight from the sap of a maple tree. For starters, you can't have a stack of pancakes without a ...
Other maple species can be used as a sap source for maple syrup, but some have lower sugar content and/or produce more cloudy syrup than these two. [23] In maple syrup production from Acer saccharum, the sap is extracted from the trees using a tap placed into a hole drilled through the phloem, just inside the bark. The collected sap is then boiled.