New technology that can raise the production volume of maple syrup 5 to 6 times

ByValerie Hinojosa

pancakeYaFrench toastMaple syrup is indispensable, but the price is higher than honey and corn syrup is a neck. Therefore, in order to make maple syrup more familiar, a project to increase the production amount of maple syrup by 5 to 6 times is done.

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This is a sugar maple tree. Traditional maple syrup making begins with collecting sap from Maple Maple tree called maple water.


The sugar maple will absorb moisture from the roots during low temperature night.


And at daytime when the temperature is high, the trees change to pressurized state.


So, when you drill a hole in a tree ... ...


Maple water, which becomes the source of making maple syrup, is accumulated in a bucket installed under the hole.


Maple syrup is colored, but maple water is transparent and has a faint sweetness. Of course it is not always possible to collect it throughout the year, and the maple water runoff is a phenomenon caused by changes in temperature for about 12 days of the year.


Traditional collection method, The collection port can not be installed unless it is a tree whose age is over 40 years old and the thickness of the trunk is 20 cm or more in diameter. Every time the diameter of the tree increases by 20 cm, you can increase the sampling port by one place, but it is impossible to attach more than four sampling ports to one tree.

So, trying to improve maple water sampling methodProctor Maple Research CenterTeam headed by Abby van den Berg.


In the first place 98% of the sap is moisture, 2%sucroseIt is the main ingredient of sugar.


On the other hand, 66% of the completed syrup is sucrose and 34% is moisture.


Therefore, when making syrup it is necessary to undergo heat treatment.


A distinctive flavor of maple syrup is born by this boiling process.


Also, by heating at high temperature, it looks like a caramel.


After filtering and removing impurities, it is put in a bottle or a can ... ...


That is why they are lining up in stores.


In a large sampling place, there are also large-scale places where tubes are stretched over big trees of sugar maple trees, and sap is gathered in one place.


Tube attached to the hole.


Sap flows through the tube.


On the other hand, Berg et al. 'S method of collecting young trees is not big tree of sugar maple.


Instead of punching holes, cut the branches of the tree of fineness as fine as the person's arm with a saw blade and attach a plastic vacuum unit to suck up the sap.


The sampled maple water flows through the tube and can be sorted like this.


Would not it be nice to cut trees when cutting young trees? I think, but there is not such a thing, since trees continue to grow even if they are cut, they will not hurt the trees.


A syrup of 0.4 - 0.5 gallons (about 1.5 - 1.9 liters) per year is made from a tree of sugar maple trees that was used in traditional ways, but when using young trees, 0.07 gallons per year (about 0.26 liters) Because it can only make, it seems to be inefficient at first glance.


However, since young trees can be planted many differently, unlike large trees, considering the size of the land, young trees are 300-400 gallons (about 1100-1500 liters) per acre (about 4000 square meters) It is possible to make maple syrup, and the amount of maple syrup made by big trees is 80 to 120 gallons (about 300 to 450 liters), so it is possible in some cases to make syrup more than 5 to 6 times.


This project is still in its early stages, although it is unknown at this stage, such as "whether the improved sampling method is commercially available", but it is unclear at this stage, but the picture which can increase the production amount of maple syrup without expanding the land It certainly is a temporary method. Because maple syrup is relatively expensive, there are products with maple flavor added to inexpensive corn syrup, but if the new sampling method is commercialized, chances are that the maple syrup will be on the table.