Maple syrup - a gift to man from nature

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-18 00:50

If you want to satisfy your sweet tooth, but are careful about your figure and therefore prefer to sweeten your food with honey or fructose instead of sugar, then you will appreciate maple syrup as a food product.

This traditional Canadian treat is a wonder of the world. It has the consistency of a viscous light yellow liquid with a characteristic sweet taste. Maple syrup is made from the sap of red or black maple trees. It serves as an excellent sweetener and sugar substitute in desserts, and is traditionally used as a standalone food item in some countries.

The history of making maple syrup goes back to the traditions of the North American Indians, who used it both as food and medicine. They, with the help of tomahawks, made cuts in the trees in the same way as you and I often do this with a birch in the spring during the active beginning of the movement of juices. After collecting maple sap by long evaporation, excess water was removed from it until a thick, viscous liquid was formed.

So without adding sugar, it turned out delicious and very sweet maplesyrup. In those early days, sugar was quite an expensive product, so maple sap syrup quickly became widespread among the early colonial settlers of North America as a natural and cheaper substitute. In addition, maple sap can be harvested all year round. All of this has made maple syrup America's national staple.

This is a truly unique natural product, which, unlike honey, contains significantly fewer calories, and at the same time (when compared with honey again) has a high concentration of minerals that we need for the normal functioning of the body. Judge for yourself: just two teaspoons of maple syrup weighing 13.3 g contain calcium, chromium, manganese, zinc, iron, potassium, etc. (more detailed information on the content of minerals, macro- and microelements is presented in the table). Where else can you find such a combination of minerals with such a high content in one product?

Maple syrup. Ingredients (for 2 teaspoons of the product):

Calcium	8, 93mg
Chrome	0.33 mcg
Copper	0.01mg
Iron	0, 16mg
Magnesium	1, 87mg
Manganese	0, 44mg
Phosphorus	0, 27mg
Potassium	27, 20mg
Selenium	0.08 mcg
Sodium	1, 20mg
Zinc	0.55mg

Now a little more about the benefits of this food. Remember, we said that the Indians used it as a remedy. Although they did not yet know that just 30 g of maple syrup can satisfy the daily need for manganese by 22%, which is responsible for the reproduction of energy at the cellular level and is an excellent antioxidant.

Also, they were unaware that the zinc contained in this sweet helps to reduce the development of atherosclerosis, prevent endothelial damage, significantly improve the condition of the inner lining of blood vessels and lower cholesterol. In addition, zinc and manganese are the main allies of the immune system.

But this is not all the possibilities that maple syrup is fraught with. The benefits of this product are well known to all men who experience reproductive problems. And again, the main assistant here is zinc, the lack of which in the male body can lead to the development of prostate cancer, and a sufficient amount of it helps to reduce the prostate, increase the synthesis of sex hormones and preserve reproductive function.

Here's what an unusual, sweet and he althy product was inventedNorth American Indians. Today it is widely used as a sweetener for tea and coffee, to which it gives a unique taste. Or as an addition to oatmeal flavored with raisins and walnuts. It is poured over fruits, ice cream, biscuits, pancakes and added to the marinade intended for baking tofu and tempeh cheese.