Organic Maple Syrup?

from Real Simple magazine

10 Organic Foods That Aren’t Worth Buying

Maple Syrup

Shelling out a few extra bucks for a jug of organic maple syrup may make you feel as if you’re doing your family a favor, but your organic budget is best spent elsewhere. “Maple syrup is usually forest harvested and probably had no pesticides or fertilizers applied, regardless of whether the label says ‘organic,’” says Carolyn Dimitri, an associate professor of food studies at New York University, in New York City.