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Article: Sweet, sticky science.(maple syrup)
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- Science News for Kids
- Article date:
- March 14, 2007
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Real maple syrup sweetens even the dullest breakfast, and it's no mystery why. The sticky stuff you pour on your pancakes is at least two-thirds sugar.
People have been collecting sap from maple trees to make syrup for hundreds of years.
But today, new technologies are making the process faster and more efficient. Researchers are even looking into ways to make trees produce sweeter sap in the first place.
"Essentially, there is nothing about the way we produce syrup now that is anything like it was 100 years ago," says plant ecologist Brian Chabot of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
Sugary sugar maples
One thing has ...