Maple, honey producers not sweet on added sugars label

Washington Post ^ | May 1, 2018 | Lisa Rathke

[Michamilton]

EAST MONTPELIER – Producers of pure maple syrup and honey aren’t sweet on a plan to label their pure natural products as containing added sugars.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will be requiring updated nutrition labels for products that are expected to say that pure maple syrup and honey contain added sugars, which the producers and officials say is misleading and confusing and could hurt their industries.

"There are no added sugars. Maple is a pure product," said U.S. Rep. Peter Welch of Vermont, the top maple producing state in the country.

[Michamilton]

This is ridiculous business-harming regulation. Maple syrup and honey don't have "added sugars"!

[miss marmelstein]

Health and safety idiocy. Like Americans don’t know maple syrup and honey are SWEET?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Drain the swamp.

[pepsi_junkie]

Every bottle required to put such labels on should have a banner that says “Note: The FDA is making us lie to you about sugar.”

[woodbutcher1963]

I recently saw pure maple syrup labeled as 100% organic. I thought to myself that ALL 100% pure maple syrup is 100% organic. It is not like there are guys out in the woods fertilizing the Sugar Maple trees.

[sickoflibs]

Don’t they already have nutritional content labels?

[Red Badger]

Then Domino and Crystal sugars should have the same label.................

[Red Badger]

yes, but the government wants them to put ‘added sugars’ on the label.............

[null and void]

Only a government with An Agenda can be this stupid.

(Did south Florida’s sugar producers make a bunch of campaign “contributions” again?)

[NorthMountain]

the government wants them to put ‘added sugars’ on the label

The government wants them to lie. Maple syrup and honey are produced from their raw materials (tree sap, nectar) by evaporative processes. Water is removed; sugar is NOT added.

What other lies does the government promote?

[MortMan]

Watering the trees, but rarely fertilizing...

[Kalamata]

Oligarchs and their lackeys are at it again.

[Spruce]

Yo! Dog! We heard you like sugar. So we put sugar in your sugar!!

[NonValueAdded]

depends on the meaning of “added,” which is obviously misapplied in these circumstances.

[ptsal]

<>Distributed using fossil fuel<>

[C210N]

For raw honey (as a beekeeper and honey harvester):

[TexasGator]

If you clean your equipment with the wrong cleaner you are not organic.

[ptsal]

<>Produced using thermonuclear power

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"Maple is a pure product," said U.S. Rep. Peter Welch of Vermont.

What is "impure" about beet and cane sugar? They are all plant products with similar concentration processes. What a specious argument.

[WayneS]

Every time I see an article about the USDA I become more convinced that most of the people who work there, and 100% of management, are f-—ed in the head.