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  1. Jun 2018
    1. "There is more Republican honey production, you could say, than there is Republican maple production,

      honey is naturally produced from bees with the help of people nurturing the bees such as bee keepers, but maple comes from trees and is man-made into syrup

    2. It will allow additional language to state the sugar is found naturally in honey and maple products.

      if the sugar comes from maple products, then why does maple syrup need "added sugar'?

    3. the FDA wants to label maple syrup as containing "added sugar," meaning an additional amount of sugar in your diet.

      The FDA is trying to promote demand. They are adding the label "added sugar" so the consumers make a different choice on which sugar they buy.

    4. Added sugar is going to have to be labeled, and maple syrup, obviously, there's no added sugar, so it's not going to have to have the labeling."

      So why does the FDA add it?

    5. . So when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposed new labels to say maple syrup contains "added sugar," producers fought back.

      what sugars did they add and why did they add them to the natural product?