Comments on: Guess what? You’re Buying Fake Maple Syrup!

By: Mark J Weingartner

Mark J Weingartner — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 05:36:47 +0000

Mark Weingartner
04.21.2018 AT 3:10 PM
Does anyone else recall a product that used to be available that had (I think) 10% real maple syrup as one of its ingredients? It was called “Maple Rich” or something like that and I used to buy it at my grocery store in Colorado because it tasted so much better than the strictly hfcs varieties. I can’t find it any more and so I now buy only 100% real maple syrup, which isn’t a bad thing, actually, but it was less expensive and really quite good syrup.

By: Gregory Lallerstedt

Gregory Lallerstedt — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 23:22:17 +0000

Sad thing is I DO remember when log cabin had 1 ingredient maple syrup..It infuriates me when it says original NO I HAD the Original and this isn’t it!!…

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:12:43 +0000

Believe me, when you do all the work from tapping and collecting from the woods and then boiling, you understand the price. Just like real honey from a local beekeeper such as myself. Nothing can match it!

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:08:54 +0000

I tap my own trees and make my own syrup!!!

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 21:39:39 +0000

I cannot for the life of me remember the name of it, but back in the 70’s (I think that’s the right decade!), there was a pancake syrup on the market that actually did have some real maple syrup in it (a very small amount). I tried it, and it was “better” than most of the brand names syrups on the market, but not great. I, like so many others posting here, was raised on the real thing. We had a relative who had a maple sugar farm in upstate New York, and we got a gallon of it from them each year (free!). Otherwise, we would never have known about it; it was definitely too pricey for our budget at that time.

When I was grown and had to pay the price myself to get the real thing, I finally bit the bullet and paid the price. For many years, we managed with only a couple of small bottles a year, so did not have french toast, pancakes, or waffles very often. Thankfully, over the years, our financial situation improved, and we often have breakfast for dinner now. Love my REAL maple syrup!!!

By: Ken.S

Ken.S — Sun, 10 Nov 2019 01:20:27 +0000

10 years back I became frustrated that even the cheap brands of maple syrup stop putting in their 2% maple syrup. In the 60’s thru 80’s it was easy to find a pancake syrup that had 15% maple syrup. When Log Cabin took it out and had the nerve to label their product “Original”, I wrote to them to confront the misleading term , original, which would imply it was the same recipe they always used. The customer service rep just said that was just a term they used but had no legal ramifications to actually be original.
Log Cabin did have a new product in the late 90’s that looked like their little bottle which contained 4% maple but it was more expensive than pure. The manufactures have determined that the consumer rally does not care what it tastes like as long as it is brown and sweet.

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By: Barry

Barry — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 19:00:45 +0000

In reply to Barry. On further inspection of the Trader Joes Organic Maple Syrup, the bottom (darker) part does not freeze, so it is maple syrup. I have to conclude that there is a watery layer on top of the syrup that shouldn't be there. The bottle had not been opened, so it was not expected.

By: Barry

Barry — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 04:58:10 +0000

I bought “Organic Maple Syrup” by Trader Joes many years ago and had stored it in the freezer. I took it out, never having been opened, and it was frozen solid. I mean solid, like ice. The maple syrup was frozen. But maple syrup is not supposed to freeze. I also have a separate, opened little plastic bottle of pure maple syrup I had purchased in Vermont from a neighborhood store who sourced it locally. Same freezer, not frozen. Something is very wrong here. Why did the Trader Joes maple syrup freeze? The jar is glass, and the top of the frozen syrup looks lighter in color and is clearly frozen. The bottom of the frozen syrup is dark like maple syrup and had no sign of movement when I shook it. Ingredients: 100% Organic Maple Syrup? I don’t think so.

By: Leslie C Blenkhorn

Leslie C Blenkhorn — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 10:06:28 +0000

You seriously believe that the average person doesn’t know that Aunt Jemima and the like aren’t real maple syrups? Or, is it just a slow news day and you are trolling people? I thought the article would be and should be about adulterated real maple syrup.