Vt. Maple Products

Hi everyone. Today I thought I’d write about something many people don’t know about. What is maple syrup? Seems like a no brainer, but a lot of people don’t really know the difference between fake and real maple syrup. What’s even more confusing is the labels that are allowed on them.

Just the other day I was in the supermarket, and picked up a very well known brand of maple syrup. Right on the label it said “100% pure maple syrup”. I was surprised at that, because I knew that could not be true. So I looked at the ingredients. Sure enough it was processed sugar, flavoring, additives, everything but maple syrup!

In fact it had no maple syrup in it whatsoever! Well how can they call it that then, they have to be truthful with food labels. Well, it’s because it just said it was maple syrup. NOT pure maple syrup, or Vermont pure maple syrup. The fact is, you can mix up some sugar and flavoring and legally call it maple syrup!

You see, it’s all in the wording of it. Plain maple syrup can be just a syrup that has a flavor of maple. In Vermont they have strict laws about what you can call maple syrup. All real maple syrup made in Vermont is labeled “pure Vermont maple syrup”.

That means it had to have came from Vermont, made in Vermont, from Vermont maple trees, and that it is 100% real VT. maple syrup. No additives, flavoring, sugar of any kind. It was all collected from the sap of Vermont maple trees, boiled down to syrup and bottled, simple as that!

You can even call something “Vermont pure maple syrup” and still not really have real maple syrup. That just means it is a syrup that was made in the state of Vermont, not that it CAME from Vermont. If you want real syrup, It has to say “PURE Vermont maple syrup.

That means it is Vermont syrup, that it was made from the maple trees of Vermont, see? So now you know that there is a good chance that “pure” maple syrup you’ve been buying is really nothing more than sugar and flavoring.

Just look at the ingredients on the label. Real maple syrup will have just one, 100% pure maple syrup. If it is Vermont syrup, which I think is the best, it will say 100% pure Vermont maple syrup. It’s that simple.