Syn free??

Hiya everyone
I've just bought from a farmers market a jar of shallots in balsamic vinegar. After looking at the ingredients it's all free apart from sugar in the pickling vinegar. Would I have to syn the shallots?? I'm confuddled

Not sure why you would think you would have to syn the shallots? They are only small onions, and onions are free.

Any idea how much sugar there is? You might have to syn that.

Hi annafarraday yes that what I meant. It's all syn free apart from the sugar as there is chilli and mustard seeds etc in there too which are free. I was wondering about the sugar but it doesn't say how much is in the jar so I got confused if I need to syn it as its in the vinegar bit lol. I probably didn't explain myself very well, wondered about sugar in the vinegar going into the shallots xx

Oh I see - yes I did misunderstand, sorry. It's difficult to say, really, if you aren't told how much sugar they are using. What you can do is look and see where it comes on the list of ingredients - they should be listed in order of quantity, so if it is way down the list then there wouldn't be very much.

In any case, if you are only eating the shallots, and not swigging the vinegar as well, I wouldn't think you would be taking on board much of the sugar. Personally, I wouldn't worry about it.

I think we confused eachother haha. Sugar is the last on the list so I'm going to have them syn free thank you for your help. Never realised the list order of ingredients is high to low. Thanks for the info xx