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Just bees? What about maple syrup?
by erosenbe0 5y ago
Just bees? What about maple syrup?
- cdot2 5y agoI believe theres a lot of processing before you get the maple syrup that you find in stores so its not really found in nature
- wfhpw 5y agoMaking maple syrup from sap is an illuminating experience. You have to reduce something like 40x the volume of sap to create the desired quantity of syrup.
- Brave-Steak 5y ago
- ipython 5y agoBut most people don’t consume maple syrup, they consume high fructose corn syrup with artificial flavoring. You have to go out of your way and pay a lot more $$$ to get “real” maple syrup. For example, the ingredient list from Aunt Jemima syrup: CORN SYRUP, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, WATER, CELLULOSE GUM, CARAMEL COLOR, SALT, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SODIUM BENZOATE AND SORBIC ACID PRESERVATIVES , SODIUM HEXAMETAPHOSPHATE
- katbyte 5y agomaybe its because I'm Canadian but no one I know would consume anything but real maple syrup, I never encountered anything else until I went to the states.
- chrisweekly 5y agoThe discussion was about maple syrup, not that HFCS junk.
- ncmncm 5y agoMaple syrup does not, in any case, appear in nature. It is another product of industry.
- briHass 5y agoMaple syrup is highly, highly concentrated sap. The sap itself is mostly 99%+ water, with just a slight sweetness to it. To make syrup, you have to boil away almost all of that water, going from gallons of sap to only a small amount of syrup. That boiling process and amount of sap required is partly why it's so expensive. It's like aged whisky: you lose so much of what you started with.