We don't fully understand maple syrup. #shorts #throwbackthursday #science #SciShow

This video was originally posted to TikTok in April 2021.

Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him)

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[DrDeuteron]

my favorite French Canadian insult is "Your syrup is from a telephone pole".

[sliveredtongue]

I will now think of myself as a tree vampire every time I have pancakes from now on.

[RaeezTheDeadPoet]

In an alternate universe, there are trees that harvest our blood and put it on their pancakes

[jakcett]

As somebody that lives in a town with an annual maple syrup festival, artificial syrup is the bane of my existence. Once you taste real maple syrup, you can never go back. You're stuck buying insanely expensive jugs of the Good Stuff for your pancakes, forever.

[agnosticgo]

The real reason is that the scientists keep eating the Maple Syrup before completing their study, just like the Galápagos tortoise.

[khadrelt]

I used to tap my own maple trees. I quite enjoyed just drinking the sap straight. It’s like mildly maple-flavored water, very refreshing.

[sepiasmith]

it's actually fascinating when you realize even common things, sometimes just haven't been fully researched so who tf knows we all just go with it

[Punz]

Fun fact: the color of the maple syrup labeled on the bottle, like amber or extra dark, does not have to do with cooking time. It has to do with when the sap is harvested in the season. The closer to the end of the harvest season the darker the maple syrup.

[NP-zldz]

Why did nobody tell me this in school, I would have dedicated my life to chemistry and food instead of being a civil servant

[mikeysrose]

I love it when Hank reminds me that there is mystery in the most everyday things.

[lmitz]

I'm in college and I have almost no money, but I still always buy the like $12 bottle of maple syrup instead of the $1.50 special or whatever because I'm not an insane person

[alybloodshade]

Whatever the reaction is, it's amazing. In Canada I got to go to a maple farm as a kid. We tasted the sap right out of a bucket before bringing it back to this kitchen they had set up and they showed us the whole process of filtering out the little bits of wood and such that fell in, the cooking process, we even had to fetch a trough of fresh snow where they poured the fresh syrup in lines for us to eat. It was a big difference in taste from tree to syrup but at the same time you could still taste it was the same thing. Having it that fresh was literally life changing.

[AnthonyBolognese]

Farmers use plant sap to see what nutrients their plants might be deficient in. Meaning, the maple sap can taste different based on where it’s growing and the soil profile. The soil profile says what the plant CAN take up. The sap profile tells us what the plant DOES take up. If you can take a sap analysis from every tree right as you tap it, you can get a more consistent product by joining only the ones that have a similar sap profile.

[WildKat]

Meanwhile us Canadians are just chugging the stuff.

[thetherrannative]

Man you’re telling me. I tried to make maple candy earlier today and failed miserably at it. The steps to turn syrup to sugar are so _specific._

[Syls]

Stop looking into it, we'd hate to have to make you disappear...

- A Canadian

[vervijw]

I made some this past spring in Michigan. It is amazing. Regular syrup doesn't even compare. And the smell while you are cooking it down.

[mhopkins]

You are one of the few creators that actually list that they have posted a video prior, and I thank you for the integrity.

[danielbickford]

Now I have the mental image of a vampire juicing a few dozen peasants and boiling that down.

[audunkippenes]

As a bachelors degree in forestry student, I like this video🌲 and yes, sap is really complicated haha