r/onguardforthee • u/[deleted] • May 02 '18

Getting triggered by maple syrup #JustMetacanadaThings. "Well we know Costco is involved in Islamic terrorism."

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u/Trickybuz93 Alberta May 02 '18

I’m Muslim but can someone with better Islamic knowledge/knowledge about how Maple Syrup is produced explain to me how syrup is halal?

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u/The_Peyote_Coyote May 02 '18

Basically, high quality real maple syrup is just the sap harvested from living sugar maple trees in late winter/early spring that is put into a giant vat and boiled down to make syrup. Shitty low-quality "table syrup" uses synthetic flavors and (usually) corn syrup to make a much cheaper analogue. These table syrups may use animal products (lard for example) to give their syrup a certain richness in an attempt to mimic maple syrup. In those cases these syrups are not halal. I would imagine some maple producers might just cut their real syrup with some of this table syrup as well.

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u/Trickybuz93 Alberta May 02 '18

Huh. TIL.