Sweet Water
Posted by Robert Haber on February 24, 2005
Q: Hi I was very interested in the sweet water page could you please tell me the complete nutritional-mineral properties of maple sap we use to sell suyrp years back but lost our evaporator and are thinking of selling just the sap. What do you think of this and is anyone else doing it?
thanx :-)
A: Maple sap is basically sugar water. Yes, it does have trace minerals and even vitamins but not much. Here is a site that has quite a bit of information on what you will find in maple syrup - www.massmaple.org Keep in mind that the sap has a much lower percentage of these ingredients than the syrup - but then, you already knew that.
I really like the idea of selling the sap rather than going through the arduous process of evaporating gallons and gallons of water and I have heard of others doing just that. You'll just have to find out who in your area is interested in buying your sap. Best of luck.
John Wiessinger ( February 24, 2005)