The syrup secret big brands DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW: (Sapjack vs Mrs. Butterworth's) Taste Test!

Jun 10, 2025 · 11:11

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Darnell goes to war over breakfast syrup, pitting Mrs. Butterworth's against Sapjack Organic Maple Syrup. Spoiler alert: one's actually maple syrup and the other is basically just high fructose corn syrup pretending to be the real deal. He breaks down the taste test first, where pure maple dominates with bright, clean flavor that doesn't need much to shine. Then comes the nutrition reality check. Mrs. Butterworth's hits you with 44% of your daily sugar in just two tablespoons, while Sapjack keeps it simple: one ingredient, organic Vermont maple syrup. Darnell drops some real talk about what we're actually feeding ourselves.

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[Music] All right

So, today on Super Shuffer Supermarket, we're going to break down a very, very important topic, syrup

We are going to do Miss Buttersworth original syrup versus I don't know who this is, but let's give him a shout out

Sap Jack

100% pure maple syrup

We're going to go through pricing

We're going to go through nutrition and try and try to change this culture as much as we can

All right, so we back in the kitchen on this episode of Super Chefer Supermarket

We're taking down maple syrup people

You know the thing we all

grew up on, but the thing I just realized one of them never said maple syrup at all

So we are going to have Sap Jacks

Sap Jack

Let me be very clear

Organic maple syrup versus Miss Buttersworth, you know, the grandma that raised almost the whole country

You know, she's been in all of our

refrigerators

Not even refrigerators, been all our pantries or sitting on the counter

So, we all know Miss Butterssworth, but I want to go head to head today because we're in a new era, people

A new era where we're not just eating what we used to eat, doing it the way we used to do it

The prices have

risen and the food quality, for some reason, it's not always rising with it

Um, so let's go ahead and get right into this

I don't even want to I don't even want to play no games

So, I like to start versus off with let's see who talks that talk

And the only way to talk that talk is what are you bragging

about on your label? Let's start with the OG first

I give her respect

You know what I'm saying? Elders first

Uh, Miss Buttersworth just says thick and rich, which in the dating life may be good for some people

But that's all I got for you

Original syrup, letting you know that it's the originator

Um, but

that's really all that it talks

Doesn't really say much else on it besides the name

And then let's get to Sap Jack

Um, first of all, stand strong is really bragging a lot. says, "No GMOs, USDA, organic, gluten-free, and 100% pure." I don't know what else you want to talk when you fighting or you're

doing something, but let people know you legit and 100% that, it's probably a good start to the fight

So, out of respect, because I mean, I've had this my whole life, I'm going to start with something that most of us have not had

And a lot of people are still loving to eat breakfast, you know, pancakes,

things like that

But I think we got to start making better choices with the small things

Like what we going to put on top of it? So, let's go ahead and try this out

First thing you notice is it's more water

It's more watery, but it's not like

water

There's a difference

It's not as thick as this will be, but it's not as thin to where there's a problem

Oh my gosh

It's something about the real thing

This is delicious

Wow

Pure maple syrup is what it is

It's 100% maple flavor

Say like it

just came out the sap like right out the tree

Uh probably this is probably Canadian if I had to guess

Not for sure, but I can find out for you all and let you know

But yeah, this is um and it's good to 20 20 20 28

I mean, that's a self-stabled item

So, flavor-wise, it's 100% pure maple syrup

If you've

never had it, it does not taste like this

So, just bright with flavor

The good thing about pure maple syrup is it's so flavorful, you don't need a whole lot of it

That's the win for it

Um, so let's go ahead and taste Miss Butterworth, the OG

First of all, let me get some water

first

All right

Now, this is going to take you down memory lane because we all have been there before

Now, look at that

That is definitely syrup

Thick, rich, you know

Uh, yeah

I got many jokes on that one, but I'll just keep it on the syrup right now

So, let's taste this out

I mean, it moves

different

The the biggest difference off rip is not just the color, but it's also just the viscosity of it

This is exactly what you grew up on

Unless you like grew up on the West Coast or something and you were like in LA and had like this growing up

Most people didn't grow up on this

Most people grew

up on [Music] it

Here's what it is

You know what I'm saying? Uh tastewise, this this tasting I knew would be simple because not I don't have to describe it as much because most people have had this

It does not taste as clean

This is a lot

more sugar even though this is sweeter

It's crazy

This is sweeter

This has more pop to it

This is thicker, more dense, and tastes more obviously artificial

So, that would be my taste

If I had to grade the two on taste, the winner has to I mean, hands

down, it's going to slapjack

Easy money right there

Let's give it up for SlapJack

They're going to win a taste one, which if you've never had pure maple syrup, it will always win in a taste contest against artificial syrup

The crazy part about this is, let's get let's go straight to nutrients cuz we

got to get right there

I want to get started with this

So, flavor, taste goes to the pure maple syrup hands down

And when it comes to taste consumer versus my chef opinion is almost every recipe that calls for syrup, we're always going to use pure maple

I don't know a recipe I've ever used that call

for maple syrup that we use artificial for

It just doesn't happen like that

Uh so when it comes to recipes, it comes to cooking, it comes to taste, pure always, hands down

But let's get to the nutrients real quick

I think it's important because this is my spill

I'm not going to give you no Dr

Phil here.

I I'm a chef first, consumer second, and a nutritionist 15th

But I understand food

So, it's important that we look at the labels

Um, first things first, ingredients

There is only, and this is Vermont

This is not Canadian

This is Vermont

So, the only ingredient on this is organic Vermont maple syrup

Nothing

else

No additives

There's nothing

It is what it is

Let's get the Miss Butterworth Grandma

First ingredients. high fructose corn syrup

Then you get the corn syrup

Then you get water

Then you get this uh gum, salt, cane syrup, caramel

I [Music]

mean, I mean, what do we need to say about this? I want to put this out there for everybody

This whenever you're drinking or eating this on your food, this is not maple syrup

It doesn't claim to be maple syrup

I never even knew that until today

We just grow up thinking

that we eat maple syrup, but it's not

This is just high fructose corn syrup, which is the leading cause probably for diabetes, high blood pressure, being pre-diabetic, pre and high blood pressure coming to you

Like this is the death of a community and definitely talk about my community

Um,

so there is no nutritional comparison here

The only thing you can compare is that one two tablespoons is a serving here on this one

A serving is two tablespoons equal

And this one has 100 calories, good calories

This one has 110 calories

That's about where it stops at for me

The ingredients in

here, the amount of sugar in here is insane to be able to get 44% of your sugar from two tablespoons. 44% of your daily value in two tablespoons of this

It's insane

So nutrients, I won't even I could I'm not going to destroy this product

That's

not why I do this show to destroy it

But when it comes to nutrition, people, you need to take this part

Your health is your wealth

And like I said the other day, I said on social media, I'll post something and say your future doctor right now is using Chat GT

Was it chat GPT to uh pass this test? So you

better take your health a little more serious

So nutrients will always go to the pure

Easy, easy, easy

So next we have price

Now, this is a tough one

I mean, like your money shows what you care about

I believe, don't quote, but we, you know, they change prices

They got different deals depending on the

store you go to

When it comes to price, this is a pint

This is 24 ounces

Cost about 350, $3.50

This is 12 oz, which if you don't know, 12 is half 24 and cost $9.99

I

mean I mean what what who what who do you think is a real winner? In the comments, let me know based on the price

Who do you think is the real winner? Twice as much for a quarter of the cost or $9.99 for half the amount

But the thing about it is it's organic

It's

pure

It is what it says it is

I'm going to give the winner obviously a price because the times we in to Miss Butterssworth

I mean get a W

They price themselves out

They're huge company

It is what it is

They win price

But overall, I mean, what are you what are you spending

your money on? I mean, I can't tell you what sugar is doing

Sugar is what I think one of the most addictive things in the world

So, you got to watch out for being addicted to things like this

You also, I know a lot of people when they first try it out, a lot of people have never had pure maple syrup, but

hopefully you'll go try it out after this

Break the habits if your kids don't like it

My kids do not like pure maple syrup

That's because we was on this for so long, but it doesn't matter what my kids like anymore

This is what they get

You know what I'm saying? It really doesn't matter

So, when it comes

to overall, and let me look and miss make sure I didn't miss anything on here

Yeah

Only thing left is availability

Availability

Ding ding ding

I mean, Miss Butterworth is going to win that every time cuz they're everywhere

And Seth, Jack, I'm pretty sure you can Amazon it.

So, I mean, that's everywhere, too

But I got this from Kroger

Got both of them from Kroger, actually

So, when it comes to the versus battle, the winner of the pure maple syrup versus syrup, we not going to disrespect it

Call maple syrup no more

The syrup has to go to and new undisputed champion

is pure maple syrup

And that was an easy win coming to you, man

We got to stop using artificial syrup

I mean, it's too excessible

I mean, I heard that Canada got so much stock of maple syrup, they could last for decades if they never made no more ever again

So, the winner of this versus battle goes to

Pure Maple Syrup by Sapjack, taking down Miss Buttersworth

Make sure you comment, DM me, let me know what you want to see go against each other or just a product that no one knows about that you want to see us review on here and give you an honest opinion and we're going to go from there

Thank you for

watching Super Sheper Supermarket

See you next time.

Episode description

In this video, we put two popular maple syrups to the test: Sapjack Organic Maple Syrup vs Mrs. Butterworth's. We'll compare them head-to-head on taste, texture, ingredients, and value to help you decide which one deserves a spot on your breakfast table. Is Sapjack the new go-to, or does Mrs. Butterworth's still reign supreme? Watch to find out! #darnellferguson #nutrion #superchef #kroger #foodcontent #culinary #foodenthusiast #foodie #sapjack #superchef #superchefvssupermarket #thesuperchefnetwork #breakfast #mrsbutterworths #healthy Follow Darnell "SuperChef" Ferguson on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superchef_23?igsh=MW9OOHZ1MjRydGF1MA==