Because of its high nutritional value and unique flavor, the price of natural bee honey is relatively much higher than that of other sweeteners. Honey is susceptible to adulteration with cheaper sweeteners; those that have been detected in adulterated honeys include sugar syrups and molasses inverted by acids or enzymes from corn, sugar cane, sugar beet and syrups of natural origin such as maple. Adulteration of pure honey with synthetic honey (based on C4 plant sugars) has become much more prevalent in recent years. In addition, there has been a recent major adulteration problem in honey from the Far East.