The best sugar free syrup
Selecting the best sugar-free syrup is dependent on three factors. For me, these three factors make the perfect syrup. The first attribute is viscosity. If the syrup runs out of the bottle like water, that is a big turn off. Pancakes or waffles are not appetizing if the syrup runs off them like water?
The second attribute is taste. There are several flavors in the sugar-free syrup lineup. But for me, it needs to have one of two flavors. The first flavor is the most popular, maple flavor. The second flavor is a flavor that goes back to my childhood. 
The taste of butter added to the maple flavor. As a boy, I remember my mother making her pancakes up with tons of butter. I saw and copied my mother’s method. The maple flavor should be pronounced.
The last attribute is how sweet the syrup is on my tongue. Some syrups are over the top and others fall short on the sweetness scale.
Testing for Viscosity
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So how do you tell which syrup has the right thickness without buying every syrup brand on the market? I developed the following viscosity test that can be done right in the syrup aisle. No, you do not open the bottles. 
You use two bottles of different syrup in comparison. Watch the bubble of air as it moves thru the syrup. The slower it moves the thicker the viscosity. In fact, if you had a favorite sugared syrup you can compare sugar-free syrups to sugared syrups and get the same consistency of your favorite sugared syrup.
Tasting for flavor and sweetness
After you have determined which syrups have the right viscosity for you, it is on to taste and sweetness. Tasting for flavor is where you will have to part with cash to know which syrup is right for you. Try several syrups for taste. I was able to do part of my taste-testing while taking my wife out for breakfast. Pancakes are always part of breakfast and I always asked what brand of sugar-free syrup they use.
I like a syrup that has multiple sweeteners. It seems that each sweetener is tasted by different taste buds so the more sweeteners the sweeter the syrup.
What are my syrups of choice?
I have it down to three syrups. All have the right viscosity. The flavor and sweetness of the three syrups are so close that they can stand in for each other. They are represented on this page. Yes, I know, there are more than three syrups on this page. But after all, the choice is yours. If you’re like me then your syrup growing up is going to play a large role in which syrup will be your favorite sugar-free syrup.
There you have it, the tools for finding the best sugar-free syrup for you.
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