Blissful Organic Rice Malt  Syrup – 500g

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Rice Malt Syrup is also known as rice syrup or brown rice syrup. This has been the long-time traditional sweetener used in China and Japan, it has found wide popularity more recently becoming the trendy ‘healthier’ substitute to sugar in baking and sweet treats.

Whilst it is a good vegan alternative for honey and substitute if you are avoiding fructose, unfortunately, when you look at it a little more closely it’s not necessarily the healthier sugar substitute, we are led to believe it is.

The product is producing, as its name suggests, from brown rice but it is still a sugar. It is essentially glucose which means it has an extremely high Glycaemic Index (GI) – 98 in fact. To put this into the approach, regular white sugar has a GI of 65. Why this is important when you are looking for ‘healthier’ substitutes is that the GI is the measure of how quickly a food will raise blood sugar. A high GI food will cause a rapid spike and then a dramatic fall which will lead to feeling hungry and cravings, essentially what rice malt syrup will do.

So how does Rice malt syrup fair when it comes to taste? It is bland and often has an unpleasant aftertaste. This doesn’t have any of the intrinsic flavour or aroma of other natural syrups such as honey or maple syrup. It is also about half as sweet as honey! And therefore, more is required to achieve a similar level of sweetness.

You can use it successfully as an alternative for honey. Other syrups, and granulated sugars keeping in mind the consistency of it and the lack of flavour. However, we would recommend using it only if you are looking for a vegan substitute for honey, or trying to avoid fructose.

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