Taste: the higher fructose content makes high-fructose corn syrup more similar to the sweetness of sucrose, while corn syrup isn’t as sweet as table sugar in equal amounts. Cost: like corn syrup ...

It takes 40 gallons of tree sap to create one gallon of maple syrup. The formula might come from science, but the result is pure magic, especially to Vermonters, who’ve been tapping and sugaring ...