Our reader did the right thing to scrutinize the label on the back of the syrup bottle. Log Cabin syrup is made from 100 pure cane sugar and natural ingredients, and its rich. Towle, who named it in honor of his childhood hero and true American icon, President Abraham Lincoln. The brand was founded in 1887 by Minnesota grocer Patrick J. There is no shortage of confusing marketing terms and slogans in food advertising. What’s Log Cabin Syrup Log Cabin has a long and proud history of making delicious syrup.

(Of note, a push to add a special line on Nutrition Facts labels for “added sugars” has stalled.) We won’t take you back to high school chemistry to explain the process through which pure corn syrup becomes high fructose corn syrup because (1) you probably suffered enough and (2) the bottom line is they are both added sugars. It wasn’t until he looked at the ingredients on the back of the bottle over pancakes that he realized the syrup still contained regular ol’ corn syrup. So when Dave saw that Log Cabin syrup contains “no high fructose corn syrup,” as stated boldly on the front of the bottle (see image), it put him at ease. As a diabetic with congestive heart failure reader Dave G. Excerpt from 1905 Towle’s advertisement featuring the paper red label of Log Cabin Maple Syrup and the black label of Log Cabin Penoche Syrup.

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