What's the difference between "real" maple syrup and "fake" maple syrup?

Question

I know that real maple syrup is sweeter, and often thinner and more expensive, and that fake maple syrup is thicker and tastes more artificial.

But what I want to know is don't they all come from sap and are boiled into maple syrup? Why make more artificial maple syrup, rather than the real thing? How do they do it? What's the difference in the making of this maple syrup?

Answer 1

Real maple syrup comes from maple trees.
Fake maple syrup is just processed sugar with artificial maple flavouring - all chemical. Not the same at all.
The real stuff's expensive cause it takes a lot of time to make, work to collect the sap, and mostly because it takes gallons of sap to produce a very tiny amount of syrup.
But it's worth it, isn't it?!

Answer 2

Real maple syrup (the thin stuff that's more expensive) is made from the sap of maple trees. The "tree farmers" (lol) go out once a year and actually drill holes in the maple trees, tap them, and collect the syrup. They process it by boiling it until it's sweeter, thicker, and brown, then bottle and sell it. Very time consuming, very expensive (for us!) but VERY worth it if you ask me. :)

Regular old pancake syrup (Mrs. Butterworths, etc.) is just corn syrup with artificial maple flavoring added. Pure sugar with nothing natural involved. It's made in huge batches in factories.

Answer 3

well, real maple syrup is just the sap from a maple tree. If you read the ingredients on the fake stuff, you will see its nothing more than a toxic mix of artifical flavorings and chemicals. You pretty much answered your own question

Answer 4

I have never heard of "artificial" maple syrup. I have tasted real maple syrup made from maple tree sap and I have tasted maple flavored pancake syrup made from corn syrup and regular sugar.

Answer 5

Fake maple syrup is just flavored high-fructose corn syrup. It's much, much cheaper, and that's why it's largely replaced actual maple syrup.

Answer 6

real maple syrup takes time to gather and cook down, it takes months , to get ready for this , you hile up into the mountains and tap trees, if your lucky the weather is right and the cooker is sober because thats what determines what quality syrup you come out with. Bushman

Answer 7

The fake syrup is high-fructose corn syrup.

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