Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This is something I ordered because I came across a recipe on-line for no bake gluten free unicorn cookies that I wanted to try on my kiddos. The author said they were paleo, but seriously, sprinkles dude. I don't eat paleo, and even I know...sprinkles totally disqualifies a recipe from being paleo. And if you remove those, all you've really got is a gluten free paleo nut butter cookie. But anyways, I digress. So the recipe calls for half a cup of maple syrup, and there was pretty much no way in anywhere I was going to do that unless I could find no other way. Thus, I purchased this product. So I have tasted it and my daughter has tasted it. I only told her it was a new brand of syrup, not what kind. She's 10, and has the kind of sweet tooth that would make an unscrupulous dentist rub their hands together with glee. Good thing I know ours aren't, they have done a great job of not pushing to over treat things and giving us rather pointed reminders about proper dental hygiene, so they check out :) Anyways, she thumbed up it and said it tasted good. No questions asked. So, it passed enough like regular syrup for her to be quite happy about it. I tasted it, and I could taste a faint bitter edge, but I'm guessing that's the flavoring that's in it to give it that maple feel. It definitely did not taste like cough syrup, as one reviewer stated, and I definitely didn't taste a hint of bacon as another reviewer pointed out. It tastes similar to many a high fructose corn syrup fake maple syrup. I happen to prefer real maple syrup for taste, I just rarely indulge because of the sugar content. I find this to be a more then adequate sub. However, I do have some comments to make about the labeling on the back. I have included a picture, because at the time of my purchase, there wasn't a picture with the ingredients or the nutritional info available. I'd like to draw your and the maker's attention to the part of the label where this is described as a zero calorie syrup, and then I'd like you to pan down to the nutritional label, where you can clearly see those 21 calories marked, which I am assuming is attributable to the vegetable fiber they put in here, I'm guessing as a thickener. Though honestly, it's still pretty thin syrup wise. Anyways, 21 calories and zero calories are not the same thing, so minimally, I'd recommend they reevaluate the wording on their label. Now, it lists Natural Flavoring, which the manufacturer in the questions section describes as proprietary and they won't disclose what's in it. My very good friend Mrs. H. and I were discussing this one just last weekend. It's a very interesting way of putting who the heck knows what into something and not have it regulated. So, that's something to be aware of in case it's going to bother you. I suspect, I *hope* it's not anything too noxious, and I'm still planning on busting out some gluten free unicorn cookies with this stuff. But those are just things for you to be aware of in case they matter to you... (I took the star off for the labeling issue and the thinness of the product, because it may not hold together my cookies the way I want and I may need to add extra coconut flour...)