Maple Diet: Maple Syrup

Many people hear of the maple diet and don’t understand why someone would want to go on a diet with “Mrs. Butterworth’s, or Log Cabin” syrup. I can understand why they may get this impression. A lot of people just call it the maple syrup diet or the maple diet and there is no clarification of what that actually means. We’re talking about pure maple syrup that is made from the sap of maple trees. This sap is a sterile, clear liquid, which provides the trees with water and nutrients prior to the buds and leaves opening in the spring.

The Maple Diet is really called the Master Cleanse detox diet. Maple syrup is only one of its ingredients. But, it is a very important ingredient. Pure maple syrup is a 100% natural food. This syrup is the ingredient that actually supplies you with most of the energy during the diet. Since, to really do the master cleanse, you’ll have to avoid any food for at least 10 days, you will have to get energy from somewhere in order for you to go about your life in as usual a manner as possible. The mapel syrup provides your body with the carbohydrates necessary to function.

I have seen in different recipes where molassas or pure can sugar syrup has been substituted in place of the maple variety when its not available. But, you should understand that this is not the preferred method of substitution. Ideally, you will want to have access to Grade B maple syrup to use in the master cleanse, or, lemonade diet”

Grade B maple syrup is darker than Grade A. It should be noted that Grade B syrup represents syrup that has taken longer to extract from the tree. It’s darker in color than Grade A. This is desirable because Grade B syurup has more of the needed nutrients in it. Maple syrup is processed by heat concentration of pure maple sap. In the boiling, concentrating, and filtering processes, all the nutrients remain in the syrup.

In its more natural and unrefined state, maple syrup has many minerals and nutrients that are needed to help the body cleanse and eliminate toxins, as well as provide energy to help with maintaining the fast. Sugars are an important source of energy. The main sugar in pure Maple syrup is sucrose. In the

The darker grades, like grade B syrup, contain small amounts of fructose and glucose. In order of sweetness, for those that have studied inot sugars, sucrose is less sweet than fructose, and sweeter than glucose. Fructose and glucose are healthier types of sugars than the regular table sugar, sucrose.

Grade B maple syrup is also replete with minerals. The following is a list of the most prominent. In pure filtered maple syrup the main minerals present are: calcium, potassium, manganese, magnesium, phosphorus, and iron.

Be sure to ask your doctor whether or not you are healthy enough to follow the maple diet or not. Remember, it is a fairly restrictive diet. To follow it as it is designed, you should consult your medical advisor.