Sugar maple secretes sap containing 3-5% sugar, high up to 10%. Generally 15-20 years of sugar maple can start drilling holes to harvest sugar sap, the holes are not big, the depth of the hole is about 4-6 centimeters, the distance of the holes from the ground, according to the thickness of the trunk, can be 45-200 centimeters. Drill 1-4 holes around the trunk of each tree, each hole can flow about 20 gallons a year, continuous collection time up to 50 years or more. As long as the harvesting is appropriate, it will not affect the growth of the tree, and after the sap is harvested, the trunk can still be used as high-quality wood. Massive promotion of planting sugar maple can be used for sugar production, timber, and greening of the environment, with many benefits. Sugar maple trunk contains a lot of starch, which becomes sucrose in winter. Sucrose becomes sweet sap when the day warms up. If you drill holes in the tree, the sap will flow out. The sap from the trunk can be used to make sugar, and the sugar made from the sap of the sugar maple tree is called maple sugar or maple sugar. The sap is concentrated into syrup for consumption and or then boiled for sugar "maple syrup", with a special flavor, but also commonly used for the manufacture of preserves, candies or tobacco flavoring. The sap is a colorless, easy-to-flow solution containing sugar and a variety of acids and salts. The syrup is yellowish-brown; the lightest is the higher grade, and the stronger the color, the lower the grade. Sugar is usually harvested in late winter or early spring. Maple sugar is most abundant in Canada.

Its fermentation makes light vinegar. The seeds with the wings removed are edible after soaking and boiling. Native Americans once took its inner bark to make flour.

Sugar maple contains about 8.5% sucrose, with glucose, fructose and other components. Concentrated with sugar maple sap syrup nutritional value can be comparable to honey, with moistening the lungs, appetizing effect. Maple syrup is a valuable raw material for the food processing industry, commonly used in the production of pastries and cold drinks, can also be processed into a variety of soft and hard candy.

The process of making maple sugar is very tedious. March and April each year is the season for collecting maple sugar, and collecting maple sap requires the right temperature. Maple sap can only be tapped when it is below 0 degrees Celsius at night and above 5 degrees Celsius during the day. The temperature at which maple syrup is boiled is usually kept at 4 degrees Celsius above the boiling point of water. The farmer drills a hole about 5 centimeters deep into the trunk of a sugar maple tree that is more than 40 years old and inserts a conduit, hangs a bucket to collect the sap from the sugar maple tree and lets the sap slowly drip into the bucket. It takes about 30 to 45 liters of sap to extract 1 liter of maple syrup. A maple tree with a diameter of about 25 centimeters usually has only one hole drilled to give it the ability to recuperate and rejuvenate. Large maple trees that are many years old can usually have 3-4 holes drilled.

According to the Canadian federal government, maple syrup can be divided into three grades according to color, transparency and taste, namely, the highest grade - has a strong original maple flavor, most suitable for direct consumption; the second grade - a little closer to the taste, the color is amber The third grade - the darkest color, suitable for food additives. The usual way to eat maple syrup is to drizzle it directly onto pancakes. Another way of eating maple syrup is called "maple juice on snow", that is, in the winter in Canada, the locals in a clean board on a clean snow, the boiling maple syrup directly dripping on top of the snow, the maple syrup will slowly solidify, and then a small wooden stick to the condensed soft maple sugar slowly rolled up, made of very chewy Maple lollipops. The wood of sugar maple and black sugar maple is called hard maple. Hard maple is hard, tough, and dense. It has a fine grain, the wood is very light in color, and the wood is very smooth when polished. Hard maple with a rippled or patterned grain is called curly maple or bird's-eye maple. Soft maple is a lumberman's term for red sugar maple, silver maple, big leaf maple, and certain other maple woods. This wood material is somewhat less hard and less useful than hard maple. Sugar maple wood is one of the hardest and densest maples, at about 740 kilograms per cubic meter, and is the most valuable raw material for furniture and flooring. Sugar Maple is often used for bowling alleys and bowling pins. Sugar Maple is also used in basketball courts, such as the flooring of the NBA, and is a popular material for baseball bats, along with Fraxinus americana. Sugar Maple is also used for billiard cues and skateboards. Sugar Maple is also used to make musical instruments, such as the sides and backs of fiddles, guitar necks, and shells.

The wood of some plants with a wavy, curly grain, or what is known as the bird's eye grain, is particularly valuable economically, and is most often used for musical instruments and jewelry boxes because of its beauty and rarity.