Real Canadian maple sugar.
Maple sugar is what happens when you keep boiling maple syrup past the syrup stage: the water leaves, and what remains is pure, dry maple — a single-ingredient sugar Canadians were making long before white sugar reached this continent. Every cup of Shyne carries exactly 2g of it.
Reviewed by Andrew Langevin — mycologist & contributing author, Mushroomology (Brill, 2026).
A tapped sugar maple stand in early spring
Fine maple sugar
Same tree, one less ingredient than you think.
Maple syrup is about one-third water. Boil that water off and the sugars crystallize into maple sugar — nothing added, nothing artificial, just sap concentrated twice over. It's one of the oldest sweeteners in North America, made by Indigenous peoples long before European settlement.
For a powdered coffee, sugar beats syrup on physics alone: it blends evenly through the bag, dissolves instantly, and never clumps or separates. Every scoop carries the same sweetness.
2g per cup — a suggestion, not a dessert.
Each serving of Shyne contains 2g of sugars from maple — for comparison, a single teaspoon of sugar is about 4g, and a flavoured latte can run ten times that. It's enough to round off the coffee's edges and echo the roast's natural sweetness, not enough to taste like candy.
It's also the detail behind the maple note in Lion's Mane Coffee, where it plays against the roast's cashew character. Every number is on the nutrition panel, printed on every bag.
Maple Sugar, on the record.
| What it is | Maple syrup with the water boiled off |
| Ingredients | One — maple |
| Origin | Canada |
| Amount per cup | 2g sugars (a teaspoon of sugar is ~4g) |
| Found in | All three blends |
What researchers have found.
This section summarizes published composition and characterization research about maple sugar as an ingredient. It is not a claim that Shyne products diagnose, treat, prevent, or cure any condition.
Metabolomics analysis of Acer saccharum sap identified sucrose as the dominant organic component, alongside glucose, fructose, organic acids (malic, succinic, fumaric), and amino acids. The study also characterized phenolic compounds, including lignans and coumarins, across the harvest season.
Garcia EJ et al., PLoS One, 2020 ↗A separate phytochemical study identified three new lignans, a new phenylpropanoid, and 26 other phytochemical compounds in maple syrup — adding to a growing library of characterized maple constituents beyond sucrose.
Further Investigation Into Maple Syrup Yields Three New Lignans, PMC3140541, 2011 ↗Don't take our word — read the pack.
The full ingredient list and nutrition facts, exactly as printed on every pack that uses maple sugar.
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Where you'll find it.
Asked & answered.
What's the difference between maple sugar and maple syrup?
Water. Maple syrup is roughly one-third water; boil it off and the sugars crystallize into dry maple sugar. Nothing else is added — it's a single-ingredient sweetener.
How much sugar is in a cup of Shyne?
2g of sugars per serving, all from maple sugar. For context, one teaspoon of table sugar is about 4g. The exact numbers are on the nutrition panel of every bag.
Why maple sugar instead of regular sugar or sweeteners?
Partly taste — maple's flavour complements roasted coffee in a way plain sucrose doesn't. Partly principle: we're a Canadian coffee company, and if a cup needs a touch of sweetness, it should come from the most Canadian ingredient there is.
Taste what's on the label.
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