{"id":236,"date":"2013-04-18T14:49:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T14:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realmaplesyrup.com\/site\/?page_id=236"},"modified":"2013-05-06T19:47:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T19:47:42","slug":"real-maple-syrup","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/realmaplesyrup.com\/site\/real-maple-syrup\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Maple Syrup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: medium;\">Real or Pure Maple Syrup is a natural product produced by harvesting sap produced in certain varieties of maple trees (the Acer genus) after long periods of freezing weather.\u00a0 When temperatures are above freezing during the day and below freezing at night, a process develops that causes sap or water with <a title=\"Bulk Maple Sugar\" href=\"http:\/\/realmaplesyrup.com\/site\/bulk-maple-sugar\/\">maple sugar crystals<\/a> to be drawn throughout the tree.\u00a0 Maple syrup producers take advantage of this process and insert a small hole into the outer portion of the tree to harvest a small amount of this sap.\u00a0 The sap from hundreds and thousands of trees is collected and excess water is removed to produce syrup.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: medium;\">Real maple syrup is produced in eastern North America in the northeastern U.S. and southeastern Canada. We have several pages dedicated to <a title=\"How Real Maple Syrup is made\" href=\"http:\/\/realmaplesyrup.com\/site\/how-real-maple-syrup-is-made\/\">how Real Maple Syrup is made<\/a> and several options for <a title=\"Shop\" href=\"http:\/\/realmaplesyrup.com\/site\/products-page\/\">purchasing<\/a> real maple products directly from our farm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: medium;\">Here&#8217;s how real maple syrup compares with other sweeteners:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/realmaplesyrup.com\/site\/real-maple-syrup\/maple_calories_chart\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-237\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-237\" alt=\"maple_calories_chart\" src=\"http:\/\/realmaplesyrup.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/maple_calories_chart-300x126.gif\" width=\"323\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/realmaplesyrup.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/maple_calories_chart-300x126.gif 300w, https:\/\/realmaplesyrup.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/maple_calories_chart-600x253.gif 600w, https:\/\/realmaplesyrup.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/maple_calories_chart-148x62.gif 148w, https:\/\/realmaplesyrup.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/maple_calories_chart-31x13.gif 31w, https:\/\/realmaplesyrup.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/maple_calories_chart-38x15.gif 38w, https:\/\/realmaplesyrup.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/maple_calories_chart-425x178.gif 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/realmaplesyrup.com\/site\/real-maple-syrup\/nutritioninformation\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-238\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-238\" alt=\"nutritioninformation\" src=\"http:\/\/realmaplesyrup.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/nutritioninformation-188x300.gif\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/realmaplesyrup.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/nutritioninformation-188x300.gif 188w, https:\/\/realmaplesyrup.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/nutritioninformation-93x148.gif 93w, https:\/\/realmaplesyrup.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/nutritioninformation-19x31.gif 19w, https:\/\/realmaplesyrup.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/nutritioninformation-23x38.gif 23w, https:\/\/realmaplesyrup.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/nutritioninformation-135x215.gif 135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real or Pure Maple Syrup is a natural product produced by harvesting sap produced in certain varieties of maple trees (the Acer genus) after long periods of freezing weather.\u00a0 When temperatures are above freezing during the day and below freezing at night, a process develops that causes sap or water with maple sugar crystals to <a href=\"https:\/\/realmaplesyrup.com\/site\/real-maple-syrup\/#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-236","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa04p3-3O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/realmaplesyrup.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/realmaplesyrup.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/realmaplesyrup.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realmaplesyrup.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realmaplesyrup.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/realmaplesyrup.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/realmaplesyrup.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/236\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/realmaplesyrup.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}