Did you know that Canada makes 85% of all the maple syrup in the world! Not only is it delicious, maple syrup is healthy and good for you! Maple syrup has good nutrients and minerals for your body. Also maple syrup contains nutrients like magnesium, calcium, potassium, riboflavin and zinc. In fact, one quarter-cup of maple syrup holds 100% of the recommended daily value of manganese.
Maple syrup is natural and easy to make Maple syrup comes from tree sap. To get tree sap you will need:bucket, tree faucet, drill, hammer, maple tree.You can buy all of this at the hardware store. First you drill a hole in the tree 2 inches deep. Second you hammer the tree faucet in the hole. Third, hang the bucket on the tree faucet. Last you wait for the bucket to fill up overnight. To get sap it needs to be below zero at night and above zero during the day.
It takes 40 litres of maple sap {that’s the stuff that comes out of a maple tree} to make 1 liter of maple syrup. To make maple syrup you have to boil the sap.Humans have been drinking sap for a long long timeFirst nations were using sap way before settlers came to Canada. They used the sap for cooking, and then later when the settlers came they used it to make maple syrup. They even traded it with other communities. We’ve changed the way we get sap since then, it’s still a natural process though . What I am trying to prove today is that maple syrup is healthy, it has minerals that your body needs, and it’s easy to get, just go to your backyard! Drinking tree sap is ancient.
Great post!
As an American, I just assumed that 100% of the world’s maple syrup came from Canada!
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I assume that you have more than one opportunity to make maple syrup yourself, and it is definitely something we did as a Canadian “must-do”. Here’s the real question: What do you put your maple syrup on? Pancakes? French toast? Something unexpected?
I am glad to see you on the blogosphere and look forward to reading what you post in the future…keep up the great work!
Doc
Hi Doc,
Thanks for reading my blog. I put maple syrup on french toast and pancakes. I have made seven more posts. I like writing in my blogfolio. I hope you keep reading it.
Eliya