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.
That's not what this regulation is about, though. This would require Maple producers like your family who don't add anything to label their syrup as having "added sugars".
Agreed. The honey and maple syrup producers have gone the route of the olive oil producers.
As long as it looks good and tastes ok then there can’t possibly be a problem, can there?
I was in a grocery store a while back to buy stock for my prepper supplies, figured I’d splurge on some real, true to life maple syrup.
Bought it... but it was not cheap, about 9 bucks a bottle, and not a very big bottle!