How to know if Your Maple Syrup is Pure
Have you ever experienced buying an original maple syrup that ended up as a fake? Truly, maple syrups are quite tricky, especially if you would want to taste its original flavor. Many companies nowadays tend to aim only the income they would generate rather than customer service, causing you customers to suffer further. The same is happening in the pure maple syrup and other products industry. They may be promoted as the purest maple syrup available; however, they may only be the nearest imitation for the pure maple syrup. How, then, could you select the true pure maple syrup? Consider the following tips:
First, the maple-flavored syrup is definitely not the pure maple syrup you are looking for. As each name connotes, the maple-flavored syrup is only a mixture dashed with maple flavorings. They may taste like maple, but if your recipe requires the pure one, using these syrups could ruin your product. Also, the pure maple syrup is a lot sweeter than the imitations. Usually, the pure syrup is thrice as sweet as your granulated sugar. Compare that to the maple-flavored syrups, which is just twice as sweet. Naturally, pure maple syrups are those mixtures gained from the extraction maple saps, thus its taste is of organic side. In imitations, who knows where they got the flavors? Some are just corn syrup added with some percentage of pure maple butter. Others may even be from the chemical and synthetic flavorings, thus having them served for your family is surely unhealthy. Take note also of this major difference between the synthetic from the pure maple syrup. A pure maple syrup is incapable of freezing. If made using careful steps, they may even last two years in your freezer. However, artificial syrups are not anti-freezers. They tend to freeze for almost three days only of continuous exposure to negative temperatures. If pure maple syrups sometimes freeze if not handled properly, what more for the case of synthetic and artificially flavored syrups, right? With that, you may check your maple syrup using the freezer. If your syrup froze solidly within just a week, you are definitely tricked by the vendor.
As a last note, check the color. The browner and darker the syrup is, the more likely it is pure.
