6 Facts about Maple Syrup, Heritage Foods
Heritage Foods has its hands on some special maple syrup from Vermont's Cantor Family Farms, a small crop this year due to the mild winter. Read below to learn Heritage's 6 amazing facts about Maple Syrup: - It takes 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup - It takes 30 years for a tree to be mature enough to tap - Because of the mild winter, this year’s sap run lasted only 12 days; typically the season is 4-6 weeks - Maple Syrup is a nutritional powerhouse containing essential minerals such as magnesium, zinc, and a lot of calcium, along with trace quantities of copper, selenium, and chromium - Maple Syrup varies in color and sweetness from year to year depending on temperature and rainfall - Most Maple Syrup in the US is blended between many sugarmakers' syrup. Our Maple Syrup comes directly from the Cantor’s Deep Mountain Maple












