Maple Syrup
Level 4 — Significant concerns
Maple Syrup is a other additive listed in the FDA food-additive database.
Also: pure maple syrup
Where you'll see it
pancakes/waffles, sweetened oatmeal, glazes, breakfast products marketed as natural
What the research says
Maple syrup is predominantly sucrose; once concentrated and stripped of food matrix, it delivers a hepatic fructose load equivalent to HFCS. Lustig classes it as an added sugar metabolically indistinguishable from refined sucrose.
[metabolical] Maple syrup is predominantly sucrose; once concentrated and stripped of food matrix, it delivers a hepatic fructose load equivalent to HFCS. Lustig classes it as an added sugar metabolically indistinguishable from refined sucrose.
Regulatory status
- Notes: From enrichment source only, not in Winter Dictionary
Sources
- Metabolical (Lustig) — Chapter 21: sugar is added to food as sucrose, high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), honey, maple syrup, or agave