Maple
Maple is a healthy alternative to ________ _________.
What is refined sugar?
This insect produces honey form nectar.
What is a Bee?
Something that contains calories, nutrients, is metabolized, and changes as it passes through the body.
What is a natural sweetener?
One advantage of artificial sweeteners is that they help control blood ______ levels.
What is Glucose?
This aspect of Michael Lange's book, Meanings of Maple: An Ethnography of Sugaring, is prominent in the backstory of the Wood's Vermont Syrup Company owner, Al Wood.
What is Heritage?
This tree is the state tree of Vermont and is essential to the sugaring industry in the state.
What is a Sugar Maple?
The kind of honey that is said to have stronger antibacterial properties than regular honey.
What is Manuka Honey?
The primary molecule in natural sweeteners is _______, also known as table sugar.
What is sucrose?
Non-nutritive food additives that provide sweetness without the calories and carbohydrates of natural sugars.
What is Artificial Sweeteners?
Wood's Vermont Syrup Company specializes in this kind of specialty syrup.
What is Barrel Aged Bourbon Syrup?
Generally the ratio of sap to syrup for the sugar maple is __________.
What is 40 to 1?
This term is used to describe and rank the authenticity and strength of antibacterial properties of Manuka honey.
What is the Unique Manuka Factor?
One disadvantage of natural sweeteners is that they are dense in _______.
What is Calories?
The number of artificial sweeteners that are currently approved in the U.S. by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
What is 8?
Process of removing water from sap that is the most modern and efficient way to cut down boiling time, currently used by Wood's Vermont Syrup Company.
What is reverse osmosis?
According to the Massachusetts Maple Producers Association, Native Americans have been tapping trees since _________.
What is 1609?
Honey is effective in fighting off these two bacteria.
What are MRSA and E. coli?
This natural sweetener is an extract from a leaf native to South America.
What is Stevia?
Sucralose is _______ times sweeter than sugar.
What is 600?
The town that Wood's Vermont Syrup Company is located in.
What is Randolph?
1/3 of a cup of maple syrup contains ______% of the RDI of manganese, which is an important nutrient related to bone health and metabolism.
What is 165?
The honey bee is the state insect of this U.S. state.
What is Wisconsin?
This beverage contains naturally occurring sugars.
What is Milk?
Luo Han Guo is another word for this sweetener that originates from China and Thailand.
What is Monk Fruit?
The number of taps currently running at Wood's Vermont Syrup Company.
What is 7000?