Many of our customers ask whether our products are organic. We produce products that we feel are organic. However our industry has no set standards because they feel all their production falls into that category. We thought we might explain what we do here and you folks can decide yourselves. It means we sell confections made only from pure Maple Syrup as well.
Some producers use paraformaldehyde pellets in their tapholes to boost production.
The pill is supposed to evaporate in the cooking process and not appear in the syrup. We're not sure but have not used them in many years. It is common practice to use some type of fat in small amounts in the boiling process to reduce foaming and make the cooking more even. Generally this fat is removed in the filtering process as animal fat and water based syrup don't mix, however, we use a filter press to ensure ultimate filtering. This process uses no heat which is what changes the characters of the sugars and makes for Maple flavor.