With bees farmed for honey, honey is not vegan-friendly. This honey is farmed in enormous quantities and undergoes a pasteurisation process that also unfortunately zaps all the wonder stuff it contains, such as minerals, enzymes and the pollen it was made from. However, the honey that ends up on our breakfast table isn’t the same thing. Honey in its most natural and raw form, is a weighty competitor when it comes to natural sweetness. We’d rather present you with the facts and let you decide which natural sweetener is best for you and which situation. We’re not mad fans of making judgment calls on different but all-natural sweet stuff. Of course, honey is another of nature’s bounty of sweeteners, as is maple syrup, so how does coconut nectar compare to the stuff from our friendly bees and maple trees? Is coconut nectar better than honey? Is coconut nectar better than maple syrup? It’s purer and a more natural form of sweetener. So they are similar, but not the same.Īt The Coconut Company, we have to confess that our real love is coconut nectar. With coconut syrup, companies take coconut sugar and add water to it, turning it back into a syrupy consistency. All that happens to the sap is boiling it down to a more viscous consistency. After all, both are syrupy! However, coconut nectar is less processed. It’s easy to understand why there is confusion around whether coconut nectar and coconut syrup are the same thing. So is coconut syrup the same thing as coconut nectar? The naturally occurring sugars help to caramelise it, and you’re left with the sweet sticky coconut nectar which finds its way to our shelves. As the moisture is heated away, a more concentrated sap remains. They then use a broad pan to heat the sap to boiling point. The sap is collected from each tree twice a day by individual farmers. We’ve written before about how coconut sap is harvested. This is found right at the top of the tree, in the blossoms which would go on to become the fruit (what you know of as the coconut). What we call coconut nectar is made by first collecting the sap from the coconut tree. It’s made with minimal processing what you get in a squeezy bottle is pretty much what it’s like when it comes from the farmer to the factory for packing up and sending out. But what is it and why do we rave about it so much? The joy of coconut nectarĬoconut nectar is a magical sweet stuff. It tastes wonderful on toast, stirred into porridge, or used in a recipe such as our Coconut Flapjacks with Cranberries and Apricots. Coconut nectar is a deliciously oozing caramel-coloured sweet delight.
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