This is all a result of MASSIVE lobbying by the taxpayer-subsidized corn industry, which is facing a well-deserved backlash against its horrific High Fructose Corn Syrup poison. Big Corn needs to be taken down. HFCS, Ethanol. Ridiculous, tax-funded boondoggles that hurt the economy and increase diabetes and heart disease.
Not true. Many producers of maple syrup and honey augment their product with sugar and don't tell the consumer. For some bizarre reason, it's okay for them to list their product as "pure" honey or maple syrup. This bill would correct this. If other producers of food products are required to do this, they should too.
I say this as someone who worked our family farm which included about a thousand maple trees that we tapped in the spring and made syrup in our sugar bush every year. We NEVER added sugar to our product, and sold it as true 100% natural and pure maple syrup.
Unless it comes from China.
But those imported from China do. Most honey originating from China is adulterated with cheap corn syrup.
I only buy honey that is known to originate in the USA, either from a local bee keeper or a brand that is trustworthy.
A bunch of morons...Maple Syrup does not have added sugar...it been used as a sweetener by the Indians...100% Maple syrup does add sugar...pancake syrup (Maple flavored corn syrup) adds sugar...
My friend, who checks his blood sugar, can use agave and maple syrup mixed and it doesn’t spike his glucose level.