Golden Syrup: An Apology

Premature Assignment of Blame

Always loved this stuff. I thought it might be heavy in sulphites, and thus responsible for certain nasty symptoms I’d been experiencing.

A dear friend who is by heritage strongly on the Beet side of the eternal war between Cane and Beet protested on its behalf.

And she’s right. I found a detailed analysis of its composition, and it has only very small amounts of sulphites in it (although not zero!). Not enough to worry about a bit of it being used as an ingredient in something else.

So I bravely eat three tablespoons full of it to see what would happen.

Delicious. No ill-effects whatsoever.

Even if you’re sulphite intolerant or even allergic to the damned things, this is fairly harmless.