Often when recipes claim to be
sugar free it really means that they've replaced
cane sugar or another
refined sugar with dried fruit or brown rice syrup or some other form of
less processed
sugar.
However, taking in that much simple
sugar (even though maple syrup contains minerals and is
less refined than corn syrup,
cane sugar, or artificial sweeteners) will cause spikes and crashes in your blood
sugar, and the potential for insulin resistance.