Pour the syrup - is it good for you

Researchers have a "food products," with blueberries and labeled green tea syrup. First studies show maple syrup helps to keep blood sugar in check and has antioxidant properties.

Researchers have identified with similar antioxidant or anti-inflammatory properties as blueberries, green tea, and other "superfoods" compounds in Maple syrup.

"In our laboratory research we have found that some of these compounds antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, which have shown to have that fight cancer, diabetes and bacterial diseases," said lead researcher Navindra Seeram, Assistant Professor of pharmacognosy at the University of Rhode Iceland.

First studies also suggest that polyphenols help in the syrup blood sugar in check, can be important for diabetics, by inhibiting the enzymes involved in the conversion of carbohydrates into sugar, he said.

The discovery of new molecules in the syrup offer also chemist with leads, that could call on synthesis of drugs to combat other diseases.

The results were presented this week one of the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society in Anaheim, California and will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal of functional foods.

The study was producers and agriculture by the Federation of Quebec maple syrup and Agri-Food Canada funded.

Total 54 beneficial connections were by researchers in pure maple syrup in Quebec, including, five of which nature never seen has identified.

Under the new connections is Quebecol--named in honour of the Canadian province of Quebec, that the world in Maple syrup production runs.

The researchers believe that it is created when a farmer out of the water in syrup abzurufenden Maple SAP is boiling. It takes 40 liters (20.5 gallons) of SAP to a litre (two pints) syrup.

The sweet SAP is collected from maple trees in the spring when freezing and thawing cycles cause to rise and flow of valves in the logs.

Seeram said that the irony of a potential anti-diabetes to find link in an artificial sweetener is not lost on him. He said "Not all sweeteners are created equal".

But while it does a good replacement for high fructose corn syrup on pancakes might he be someone out and drink gallons of extract in the hope of the benefits.

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