Pure maple syrup or raw honey?

Emijanine

I'm a syrup girl. How about everyone else?

janejellyroll

I don't do honey, but I love maple syrup.

Emijanine

janejellyroll wrote: »

I don't do honey, but I love maple syrup.

Yes syrup tastes a lot better to me!

Need2Exerc1se

For pancakes and waffles, maple syrup.
For toast and biscuits, honey.
For peanut butter, either will do but syrup is #1.

upoffthemat

Need2Exerc1se wrote: »

For pancakes and waffles, maple syrup.
For toast and biscuits, honey.
For peanut butter, either will do but syrup is #1.

Honey with peanut butter. Honey does have some nice health benefits as well, but my dad makes maple syrup so I have a supplier and I help him in the process of making it so I use maple syrup a lot.

Maple syrup in a meat marinade/glaze, on summer squash, sweet potatoes, in oatmeal, etc.

Emijanine

Need2Exerc1se wrote: »

For pancakes and waffles, maple syrup.
For toast and biscuits, honey.
For peanut butter, either will do but syrup is #1.

Yup! I just had waffles with PB and syrup! so good!

yarwell

Sugar. Meh

NaturalNancy

Syrup w my waffles and once and a while in coffee.
Honey in my Icecream! It gets cold and chewy.
I like honey on apples and on toast w peanut butter and bannanas

Krisfit40

honey

cerise_noir

I like both.
But I like my maple syrup right out of the tree tap and boiled.

lemurcat12

Depends on what I'm eating it with. Don't eat either that often, like both in the right circumstances.

shadowfax_c11

I am in the it depends camp. I like Honey in my tea and wit butter on a fluff biscuit. Pure Maple syrup is great in coffee as well as on pancakes and waffles.

MakePeasNotWar

Maple syrup all the way.

Alluminati

I like both. I really love peanut butter maple sandwiches.

jgnatca

Homogenized honey to avoid food poisoning.

Emijanine

Actually, raw honey is the only food that does not go bad! They have found honey that is like 4,000 years old, and it js still edible!

Emijanine

Alluminati wrote: »

I like both. I really love peanut butter maple sandwiches.

I will have to try this!

JeromeBarry1

Each in it's place. Although pure maple syrup never did it for me. I got accustomed to Griffin's syrup and that is the syrup of my choice. Honey is good for some things, too.

Pinkylee77

I do both each has a place. I do like to use local honey for the allergy benefits. Plus the fresh stuff is so good.

Gisel2015

Neither.Too sweet and gooey

zyxst

Gotta go with pure maple syrup because I've never had raw honey. WTH is raw honey? Honey with the bee bits included?

Ws2016

Both

Ultima_Morpha

jgnatca wrote: »

Homogenized honey to avoid food poisoning.

Um, I think you mean pasteurized. Homogenization has nothing to do with food borne pathogens; it is the process of creating a homogenous substance that is resistant to separation...such as homogenized milk.

CooCooPuff

I only ever use honey in recipes that call for it.

Lounmoun

For what purpose?
I have both in my kitchen and use both for different things. I am more likely to use honey in recipes instead of drizzling it on pancakes but would put it on cornbread.

RodaRose

Pinkylee77 wrote: »

I do both each has a place. I do like to use local honey for the allergy benefits. Plus the fresh stuff is so good.

Yes. And raw honey has antibiotic properties as well.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23782759

Am J Ther. 2014 Jul-Aug;21(4):304-23. doi: 10.1097/MJT.0b013e318293b09b.
Antimicrobial properties of honey.
Israili ZH1.
Author information

Honey has been widely accepted as food and medicine by all generations, traditions, and civilizations, both ancient and modern. For at least 2700 years, honey has been used by humans to treat a variety of ailments through topical application, but only recently have the antiseptic and antimicrobial properties of honey been discovered.

Honey has been reported to be effective in a number of human pathologies. Clinical studies have demonstrated that application of honey to severely infected cutaneous wounds rapidly clears infection from the wound and improves tissue healing.

A large number of in vitro and limited clinical studies have confirmed the broad-spectrum antimicrobial (antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, and antimycobacterial) properties of honey, which may be attributed to the acidity (low pH), osmotic effect, high sugar concentration, presence of bacteriostatic and bactericidal factors (hydrogen peroxide, antioxidants, lysozyme, polyphenols, phenolic acids, flavonoids, methylglyoxal, and bee peptides), and increase in cytokine release, and to immune modulating and anti-inflammatory properties of honey; the antimicrobial action involves several mechanisms.
Despite a large amount of data confirming the antimicrobial activity of honey, there are no studies that support the systemic use of honey as an antibacterial agent.

Emijanine

RodaRose wrote: »

Pinkylee77 wrote: »

I do both each has a place. I do like to use local honey for the allergy benefits. Plus the fresh stuff is so good.

Yes. And raw honey has antibiotic properties as well.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23782759

Am J Ther. 2014 Jul-Aug;21(4):304-23. doi: 10.1097/MJT.0b013e318293b09b.
Antimicrobial properties of honey.
Israili ZH1.
Author information

Honey has been widely accepted as food and medicine by all generations, traditions, and civilizations, both ancient and modern. For at least 2700 years, honey has been used by humans to treat a variety of ailments through topical application, but only recently have the antiseptic and antimicrobial properties of honey been discovered.

Honey has been reported to be effective in a number of human pathologies. Clinical studies have demonstrated that application of honey to severely infected cutaneous wounds rapidly clears infection from the wound and improves tissue healing.

A large number of in vitro and limited clinical studies have confirmed the broad-spectrum antimicrobial (antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, and antimycobacterial) properties of honey, which may be attributed to the acidity (low pH), osmotic effect, high sugar concentration, presence of bacteriostatic and bactericidal factors (hydrogen peroxide, antioxidants, lysozyme, polyphenols, phenolic acids, flavonoids, methylglyoxal, and bee peptides), and increase in cytokine release, and to immune modulating and anti-inflammatory properties of honey; the antimicrobial action involves several mechanisms.
Despite a large amount of data confirming the antimicrobial activity of honey, there are no studies that support the systemic use of honey as an antibacterial agent.

Fantastic info!

AmazonMayan

I really love both. Maple syrup does beat a lot of the clover honey, but I have to say a quality wildflower honey beats everything. Absolutely amazing flavor.