Wheat flour is flour made from ground wheat kernels of the wheat plant. It can be processed in anyway that the companies who have owned it want to, including bleaching, milling at high temperatures, separating the germ from the rest of the grain and whatever else they want. These laws are helpful to let you know what you are buying. In other words when you read wheat flour on the label it simply means it came from the wheat plant originally but has been processed and is no longer a whole food. We make no claims but many diabetics have told us they can eat our cookies.
Maple syrup is a complex sugar which takes much longer to digest than simple sugars.
This time factor combined with the length of time it takes to digest the high fiber and high protein content of our cookies seems to be why they can eat our cookies. Always check the nutritional analysis when making a decision such as this. We don't use fruit sweeteners in our cookies because if they are not organic they are from chemically sprayed fruits, and after dehydration of water in the fruit the chemicals become very concentrated. Because it is filtered through mashed animal bones during the whitening process as well as bleaching. And our source on this one is the Vegetarian Times magazine.