Maple syrup

Sweets

Maple syrup is a natural sweetener made by boiling down the sap of maple trees, with a warm, rich, caramel flavour and notes of toffee and vanilla. It is composed mainly of sucrose. Pour it over pancakes, waffles, and porridge, stir it into dressings and marinades, use it to glaze roasted vegetables and meats, or sweeten baked goods and drinks.

Polyols

SorbitolNot yet analysed

Source: Not yet analysed

What this means

This is maple syrup's own sorbitol content, not a recipe amount. Sorbitol is a polyol — a type of sugar alcohol — calculated from two official food-composition databases, Germany's Bundeslebensmittelschlüssel (BLS 4.0) and the French Ciqual table. Recipes are evaluated separately against a 0.20 g threshold (a per-serving cutoff from Varney et al. 2017, Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, applied to one reference serving of the recipe) — an ingredient's own figure isn't directly comparable to that number, since a recipe combines several ingredients in different amounts. This describes the food, not a guarantee about how your body will respond to it.

Sugars

Per 100 ml

Total fructose0.5 g

Excess fructoseNot a source

Source: Measured value (BLS 4.0)

What this means

These are maple syrup's own fructose figures, not a recipe amount. Total fructose is how much fructose the food contains. Excess fructose is fructose minus glucose, counted only when positive, since glucose helps the body absorb fructose — it is the figure behind the "Low fructose" filter and the recipe figures. When measured, both come from two official food-composition databases, Germany's Bundeslebensmittelschlüssel (BLS 4.0) and the French Ciqual table. Recipes are evaluated separately against a 0.40 g threshold of excess fructose (a per-serving cutoff from Varney et al. 2017, Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, applied to one reference serving of the recipe) — an ingredient's own figure isn't directly comparable to that number, since a recipe combines several ingredients in different amounts. This describes the food, not a guarantee about how your body will respond to it.

Sources

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