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Cary's Sugar Free Maple Syrup

By: Rae Pellegrino | Jul 22, 2009

I've never really bought into the whole maple syrup on pancakes deal. To me, its too sweet, too full of calories, and just screams out dessert instead of breakfast. So I've been content all these years to top my stack of pancakes with some berries or any seasonal fruit and just call it a day. While out to breakfast recently, I saw Cary's Sugar Free Maple Syrup and while being somewhat hesitant, I poured it over my pancakes.

Although the taste was pretty good for a sugar free product, it was still too sweet for my pancake tastes. Still, I was determined to give this baby a fair shake. Where else could I find a use for it? In oatmeal! I whipped up a batch of banana oats, and, in lieu of my usual brown sugar to sweeten it, I added a drizzle of this syrup. Pure heaven. Excited, I decided to try it on my other dishes that I customarily add a little brown sugar, namely sweet potatoes and squash. Yum! I clearly had found a winner.

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Smucker's Sugar Free Breakfast Syrup

By: Emily B | Jul 22, 2009

Smucker's did a pretty decent job with their Sugar Free Apricot Preserves so I decided to try another one of their sugar free products and opted for the Smucker's Sugar Free Breakfast Syrup. I had really high hopes for this syrup, and luckily it delivered.

I had it in mind to use it to jazz up a bowl of canned pumpkin (hello Libby's Canned Pumpkin) by adding some maple syrup and zap it in the microwave. It sounded so good in theory, that I purchased the syrup and went home to try and create my pumpkin syrup mash-up. Let me tell you - this is, by far, the best sugar free syrup I've tried! . Often times low calorie/sugar free syrups tend to be watery and 'un-syrupy,' but Smucker's Sugar Free Syrup is thick and sweet. This tasted amazing in a bowl of pure pumpkin, and I am sure it would be fantastic in oatmeal, on pancakes and in any other situation where syrup is a necessity

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Maple Grove Farms Vermont Sugar Free Maple Syrup

By: Ellen | May 29, 2009

What goes better with pancakes than maple syrup? It's too bad a mere 1 tablespoon has about 50 calories - that translates into 200 calories (and almost 50 grams of sugar!) for a measly 1/4 cup serving. Yuck! Luckily, there are some sugar-free versions out there to lighten the load.

I came across Maple Grove Farms Vermont Sugar Free Maple Syrup in the grocery store for $4.99. Expensive, yes, but given my love for pancakes, I was keen to try it anyway. Looking at the nutritional info on the back, I was highly impressed (and also somewhat nervous about the taste, as low-calorie toppings can often be pretty unappetizing). A 1/4 cup serving provides only 15 calories, 110 mg of sodium (5% of the RDA), 3 grams of sugar alcohols, and a surprising variety of nutrients (25% of the RDA for each thiamin, niacin, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, pantothenic acid, and zinc). If this stuff tasted as good as its nutrition data, I would be sold!

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Walden Farms Calorie Free Caramel Dip

By: Liza | Nov 11, 2008

Have you tried any of the calorie-free products from Walden Farms? They focus on sales and distribution of specialty sauces featuring no carbohydrates, no sugar, no fat, no cholesterol and no calories. I have tried several of their products and I must say I've yet to find something that I like. I was hoping this Walden Farms Calorie Free Caramel Dip would be the answer to my prayers, but unfortunately I was once more left disappointed.

After seeing how thick the caramel looked, I was willing to give it a shot. I must admit I was kind of excited but that feeling didn't last too long. I opened it and scoop a spoonful of caramel dip, the texture looked nice, creamy and thick but unfortunately that was all that was good in this product. The taste was bland, kind of sweet, but very far from resembling a delicious caramel flavor. After eating it, I experienced an awful, kind of weird and bitter after taste. Believe me when I tell you that you really don't want to find out for yourself, just stay away from it!

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Polaner Sugar Free Blueberry Topping

By: Lizabeth | Feb 4, 2008

There are days when I get the strong urge to whip up a batch of pancakes. It just seems like the thing to do on a beautiful weekend morning. Nutritionally, you could do worse than a stack of pancakes if you make them with whole grains and minimize the amount of butter added to them. Until, of course, you drown them in a calorie laden syrup, which will set you back a whopping 200 calories per 1/4 cup (I'm looking at you Aunt Jemima).

Having the craving for blueberry pancakes, I naturally desired a blueberry syrup to top them with. Lo and behold, I spotted Polaner Sugar Free Blueberry Topping at my store. It comes in a little jar lacking a pour-spout, which meant that I had to spoon it out onto my pancakes - that was a little different. The texture, however, was surprisingly thick and ... syrupy. It has a wonderful blueberry flavor, and it's not as sweet as a traditional blueberry syrup, but it's still sweet enough.

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Hersheys Lite Chocolate Syrup

By: Caroline Yoder | Jun 13, 2007

I am a devoted advocate of the 90/10 rule. What is this 90/10 rule, you ask? I am referring to the notion that healthful eating should be comprised of ninety percent nutritious foods, and the remaining ten percent can be reserved for treats. Most of my calories come from fruits, veggies, whole grains, and lean protein, but I always reserve some room for a special dessert at the end of the day. Often this dessert is a frozen yogurt sundae, or more frequently a decadent protein shake. No matter how many tasty ingredients I put into these slightly indulgent creations, they never seem complete without the chocolate syrup. Hershey's regular chocolate syrup is fat free but still packs 100 calories per 2 tablespoon serving. This figure is a tad high for my tastes, so I sought out an alternative.

Hershey's makes two reduced-calorie chocolate syrups: sugar free and lite. I have sampled both, and I can say with full confidence that you will enjoy the lite much more than the sugar free variety. The sugar free version only has 15 calories per serving and is artificially sweetened. Unfortunately, it tastes like a combination of chemicals and water. I detected NO chocolatey flavor whatsoever. On the other hand, the Lite product is a welcome addition to any sweet treat. The lite syrup contains half the calories of the original with 50 in two tablespoons, but it maintains that signature Hershey's taste and is slightly less viscous than the regular variety, a characteristic that better enables it to smother your entire dessert.

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Roddenberrys Northwoods Sugar Free Syrup

By: Ann H | May 25, 2007

Because of my waffle/ pancake obsession, I have become somewhat of a syrup connoisseur. I picked up the Roddenbery's Northwoods Sugar Free Syrup at the store out of curiosity, and more so because my usual Log Cabin Sugar Free syrup was out of stock.

I can sum up the taste of the Roddenbery's Syrup in one word: Blaaaahhhhhhh! It was flavorless, thin and runny, and had an unusual metallic-like after taste. The back label of the syrup contains the statement: "Enjoy thick rich sugar free syrup based on an over 100 year tradition of quality ingredients." This claim rubbed me in all the wrong ways, mainly because it is a bold face lie for this syrup was by no means thick or rich!

Also, I don't know in what world cellulose gum, phosphoric acid, sodium hexametaphosphate, and acesulfame potassium qualify as "quality ingredients." Y'all should know that there is little else on this Earth that I detest more than false advertising and this is a perfect example. I was extremely disappointed in this product and I couldn't help feeling like I had wasted 2 perfectly good Van's Multi-Grain waffles by covering them in this quasi-syrup concoction.

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Aunt Jemima Butter Lite Syrup

By: Tanya Patrice | May 3, 2006

Being a broke grad student means that I try "store brands" of food products in an effort to save money. Some times the store brands are just as good as the name brands and sometimes, the store brand does not even come close. Pancake syrup is one thing that I will always choose the Aunt Jemima brand over a store brand [or any other brand for that matter]. Somehow, Anutie J has perfected the formula to make syrup with just the right sweetness, the right thickness and the right taste to go with pancakes or waffles. But, the original Aunt Jemima syrup has 210 calories per s1/4 serving! I don't want an extra 200 calories added to my meal from a condiment - heck, I would rather spend those 200 calories on a small bag of potato chips.

So thank you Anutie J, for introducing Aunt Jemima Butter Lite Syrup. But you know that sometimes, when you mess with the best, it turns out to be really bad? Well, no worries here! Auntie J is on top of her game with this one. I had it with the Van's Organic Soy Flax Waffles [read the review] and it tastes great (so do the waffles). It's really thick and sweet - but don't use too much, because it gets to be a little too sweet after too much.

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Nestle Nesquik Strawberry Syrup

According to the label of Nesquik Strawberry Syrup, it is fortified with calcium to help build strong bones. Seriously, if you have to get calcium from a syrup - something is wrong with your eating habits. What is not splashed across the front of this label is that 2 tablespoons of this stuff will give you 116 calories, mainly from 27 grams of sugar! As for the calcium - you get 10%. Oh and don't forget this is artificially flavored - so you won't find strawberries listed in the ingredients.

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