Katy Green, the spokesperson for the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association, told me MOFGA-certified producers use organic vegetable oil. If you want a vegan maple syrup and you don’t know what a particular producer uses, look for the MOFGA organic label. Dunn uses a synthetic defoamer at his sugar house, and I asked if he considers his syrup vegan.Ībbie Sprague and Dalton Meagher serve Maine-iac Maple Farm syrup over vegan ice cream on a pre-COVID Maine Maple Sunday at the sugar house in Richmond, which uses vegetable oil as a defoamer. Synthetic defoamers don’t reveal their ingredients, so we don’t know if they contain animal products. The defoamer of choice for many of today’s maple producers is a synthetic oil. I’ve heard of people using coffee creamer. When I asked Dunn about potential defoamers, he said, some producers “used to take a hook and put a piece of bacon fat in (the evaporator). “However, there are a few old-timers that still do, but they are generally smaller in size.” “Very few producers use animal-based products,” said Scott Dunn, president of the Maine Maple Syrup Producers Association and owner of Dunn Family Maple in Buxton. ![]() Dairy cream, butter and pork fat can be used to defoam evaporating maple, though experts say that Maine’s major maple producers avoid animal products. Defoamers are fats added in small amounts to keep the viscous liquid from bubbling and foaming and slowing the evaporation process.
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