Comments on: Do You Know What’s In Your Pancake Syrup?

By: Dreena Burton

Dreena Burton — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:09:31 +0000

Michael, fortunately I’ve never tried the sugar-free stuff. Lucky to have missed that one! (even during my “diet soda” days – ugh)

ilikeitwhole, that’s a new one to me, and I’d love to try it. We don’t have the breadth of whole food products in Canada that are in the US, so I’ve never seen this. Going to check into it – thx!

sunoxen, we eat a whole foods diet, and even our pancakes are made with whole-grain flour, sometimes with hemp or salba added, and NO butter (we are vegan). I believe in baking healthy treats for kids. We eat pancakes maybe once every couple of weeks. Having maple syrup with those pancakes doesn’t trouble me when I know my kids are probably eating hummus or chickpeas for lunch, or quinoa or brown rice with a legume-based soup for dinner. I am quite tuned in to nutrition for my kids, and the perils of sugar. I disagree that there is no difference between hfcs and white sugar and healthier sweeteners like brown rice ryup and maple syrup. My kids eat very healthy – every day. They don’t know what a Snickers bar is, and have never stepped inside a McD’s. So pure maple syrup with their whole-grain pancakes? Absolutely, I’ll take care of their overall diet and let them enjoy being kids.

Jay, I love adding cinnamon to sauces too and also to my smoothies – probably my favorite spice!

By: Jay Dinielli

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:32:08 +0000

I use either PURE Maple syrup (only one ingredient, who cares about calories, etc.!) or brown sugar (ORGANIC) that I mix with cinnamon (an EXCELLENT antioxident (SP?).
Let it be known; I prefer a nice well-done waffle over flapjacks any day!
Ciao!

By: sunoxen

sunoxen — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:06:21 +0000

Firstly, I would start by not feeding children pancakes. Fried flour with butter is about as healthy as eating cardboard.

Then, I would choose not to feed them maple syrup. Pure maple syrup has about 53, I repeat, 53 grams of sugars in it per 1/4 cup. That’s 2 snickers bars worth of sugar.

Yes, high-fructose corn syrup is terrible for a child’s body, but so is “regular” sugars like sucrose. Maple Syrup is mo more “real” than high fructose corn syrup or sucrose.

http://drp.ly/uAfq

Watch that and see the science of how sugar effects a human body, and especially a child.

By: ilikeitwhole

ilikeitwhole — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:32:31 +0000

this article makes a point applicable to so many common products out there. yuck. have you heard about pure, organic date syrup? it’s my kids favorites on pancakes. we even like it better than maple syrup, especially because of all the goods in dates!

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By: Michael Roston

Michael Roston — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:31:21 +0000

Agreed. What’s even worse than “Pancake Syrup” is sugar-free pancake syrup. I was subjected to some recently for the first time ever. It was like something I’d imagine astronauts would eat when their only other option was space station cannibalism.