--- title: Maple Water by Vertical description: Why maple water is the new coconut water. canonical: https://time.com/81032/maple-water-is-having-a-moment/ author: Anita Hamilton article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-30T10:45:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:48:41.965Z og:title: Will Maple Water Be The New Coconut Water? og:description: Why maple water is the new coconut water. og:url: https://time.com/81032/maple-water-is-having-a-moment/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1461c932795df5eb/69868cf6cd68481f8b094626/vertical-water-500ml_0020_bottleonly.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Vertical Water og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Will Maple Water Be The New Coconut Water? twitter:description: Why maple water is the new coconut water. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1461c932795df5eb/69868cf6cd68481f8b094626/vertical-water-500ml_0020_bottleonly.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Maple Water Is Having a Moment by [Anita Hamilton](https://time.com/author/anita-hamilton/) ## Anita Hamilton Apr 30, 2014 10:45 AM UTC  Courtesy Vertical Water by [Anita Hamilton](https://time.com/author/anita-hamilton/) ## Anita Hamilton Apr 30, 2014 10:45 AM UTC From [maple-infused](http://www.cabinfeverspirits.com/product.php) [whiskies](http://www.jimbeam.com/maple) to maple [doughnuts](http://www.indystar.com/story/entertainment/dining/2014/04/23/indys-first-craft-donut-shop-to-open/8048293/) and [desserts](http://time.com/80155/waffogato-dominique-ansel-bakery/), the sweet, caramel-colored syrup clearly has a devoted following. But maple isn’t all about the syrup anymore. Now several companies are bringing their maple water to U.S. store shelves this spring. Maple syrup is really boiled sap from a sugar maple tree. The new maple waters from [Seva](http://www.eauderableseva.com/en/index.php), [Vertical Water](http://verticalwater.com/) and [Drink Maple](http://www.drinkmaple.com/) use pure maple sap, which is water from the ground that has been filtered as it travels up the tree trunk and gets infused with sugar, calcium, potassium, magnesium and manganese along the way. (It’s still at least [95% water](http://www.eauderableseva.com/en/product.php).) Drinking maple sap is nothing new — it’s long been considered a tonic among native Americans and some [East Asians](http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/06/world/asia/06maple.html) — but packaging it and bringing it to consumers in the U.S. is. To do so, the fresh sap gets processed so it’s shelf stable for up to a year, the [_Cornell Chronicle_](http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2014/03/new-maple-water-drink-has-untapped-potential) reports.  Courtesy Drink Maple Sounds tasty, but wouldn’t maple water be too sweet? Not really. Seva, which taps sugar maples in Quebec’s Laurentian Forest, says each cup of its organic maple water has [less than a teaspoon of sugar](https://www.facebook.com/DrinkSeva/info) and just 20 calories — about [half](http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/features/truth-about-coconut-water) of what’s in [coconut water](http://vitacoco.com/products/#pure). The tree water, which sells for about $2.50 to $4 a bottle, opens up a sweet world of culinary possiblities as well when substituted for regular water in [popsicles](https://www.facebook.com/DrinkSeva/posts/250995271756063) and ice cubes or used to steep tea leaves. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/81032/maple-water-is-having-a-moment/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/81032/maple-water-is-having-a-moment/"},"headline":"Maple Water Is Having a Moment","datePublished":"2014-04-30T10:45:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:48:41.965Z","description":"Because coconut water is so last year.","url":"https://time.com/81032/maple-water-is-having-a-moment/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food & Drink","calories","Water","Whiskey","Sugar"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1461c932795df5eb/69868cf6cd68481f8b094626/vertical-water-500ml_0020_bottleonly.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Anita Hamilton","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/anita-hamilton/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1461c932795df5eb/69868cf6cd68481f8b094626/vertical-water-500ml_0020_bottleonly.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Vertical Water","caption":"","creditText":"Courtesy Vertical Water","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/81032/maple-water-is-having-a-moment/","name":"Maple Water Is Having a Moment"}}]}] ```