Pure maple syrup or raw honey?

Emijanine
Emijanine Posts: 158 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I'm a syrup girl. How about everyone else?

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  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    I don't do honey, but I love maple syrup.
  • Emijanine
    Emijanine Posts: 158 Member
    janejellyroll wrote: »
    I don't do honey, but I love maple syrup.

    Yes syrup tastes a lot better to me!
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    For pancakes and waffles, maple syrup.
    For toast and biscuits, honey.
    For peanut butter, either will do but syrup is #1.
  • upoffthemat
    upoffthemat Posts: 679 Member
    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
    Emijanine Posts: 158 Member
    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
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    Sugar. Meh
  • NaturalNancy
    NaturalNancy Posts: 1,093 Member
    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
    Krisfit40 Posts: 106 Member
    honey
  • cerise_noir
    cerise_noir Posts: 5,468 Member
    I like both.
    But I like my maple syrup right out of the tree tap and boiled.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    Depends on what I'm eating it with. Don't eat either that often, like both in the right circumstances.
  • shadowfax_c11
    shadowfax_c11 Posts: 1,942 Member
    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
    MakePeasNotWar Posts: 1,329 Member
    Maple syrup all the way.
  • Alluminati
    Alluminati Posts: 6,208 Member
    I like both. I really love peanut butter maple sandwiches.
  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
    Homogenized honey to avoid food poisoning.
  • Emijanine
    Emijanine Posts: 158 Member
    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
    Emijanine Posts: 158 Member
    Alluminati wrote: »
    I like both. I really love peanut butter maple sandwiches.

    I will have to try this!
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    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
    Pinkylee77 Posts: 432 Member
    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
    Gisel2015 Posts: 4,186 Member
    Neither.Too sweet and gooey :s
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,149 Member
    Gotta go with pure maple syrup because I've never had raw honey. WTH is raw honey? Honey with the bee bits included?
  • Ws2016
    Ws2016 Posts: 432 Member
    Both
  • Ultima_Morpha
    Ultima_Morpha Posts: 892 Member
    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
    CooCooPuff Posts: 4,374 Member
    I only ever use honey in recipes that call for it.
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    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
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    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
    Emijanine Posts: 158 Member
    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
    AmazonMayan Posts: 1,168 Member
    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.

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