Maple Syrup: Much more than just a pancake topper!

 Maple syrup, especially a local syrup like Mill Hollow Maple is full of not just wonderful flavor but nutrients and vitamins! Did you know that real maple syrup is predominately a North America product. Canada, Vermont and New York. New York produces some where around 564K gallons a season! My favorite is from Mill Hollow Maple and yes like honey each region (at least for me) has it's own unique flavor.

Both Grade A and Grade B contain these benefits, but Grade B is higher, because it is denser and more concentrated.

Again, something from nature offers many benefits such as zinc which helps raise your "good" cholesterol, provides 22% of Daily value of manganese in just 2 tsp (how..wait for it..... SWEET  is that!!), has been shown to reduce heart disease, increase your immune system, reduce prostate cancer and healthier reproduction system, especially male reproduction. Contains anti-oxidants, is 3 TIMES as sweet as cane sugar BUT has less calories! Has anti-inflammatory qualities.

Studies recently have shown that Maple Syrup may actually reduce the onset of of Type -2 diabetes. If we take back some of common sense, we start to see where this makes sense. Type-2 has only increased over the years as the use of maple syrup has decreased,so it isn't the syrup, but common sense: what "others" say is good for you (you know that HFS and all the other cheap chemicals used to make "cheap" food and I say this  is only cheap to make and highly profitable to corporate owners!) is not better for you and what nature has to offer is. It is time to take back some of our common sense and use our wonderful local Maple syrup (and honey). Yes you can over do with these sweeteners as well, but again using common sense we already know that.

Give me nature and local any day!