SweetLife St. John's Bread Syrup (Carob Syrup)

A delicious new alternative for honey! Applications include sweetening coffee or tea, desserts, waffles, salad dressings, etc. It's also perfectly suitable for baking and cooking.

SweetLife St. John’s Bread Syrup is produced from the fruit of the St John’s Bread tree, also known as the carob tree. This tree is grown in the Mediterranean and has been known since biblical times. St. John the Baptist is said to have survived for several days on the fruits of this tree. Hence the name.

The fruit pods were mainly used as animal feed, until we managed to extract the most delicate natural sweetening syrup from it!

• The glycemic index  is around 35 % lower than sugar and about 20 % lower than honey
• It has about 25 % fewer calories than sugar and 10 % fewer than honey
• St John’s bread syrup is a source of nutritional fibre with 5 % fibre by weight as opposed to sugar or honey