Wahta Pure Maple Water in 2025

by Martin Peyruc, The Reckless Gastronome — Life News Today

Originally published Aug 5, 2014. O Canada, don't you know maple is for pancakes, not for drinking (the scene from Super Troopers not withstanding)? I picked this up out of sheer curiosity as I frequently do, but once I did a bit of research (after I try something new I like to look up if it's going to kill me) I found out this is supposed to be healthy! Maybe. It's the new coconut water (which I've never had since I'm massively allergic to coconut) Like everything that claims to be good for you, there is intense debate over health claims and as always intense health debates leave me hungry for doughnuts. Mmm, maple doughnuts. Sorry, got sidetracked.

So what is maple water? It's the maple sap before they boil it to make the syrup. They could have called it Tree Blood, put it in a black container, and have sold it to metal heads. Instead they called it Wahta, which according to the box is "maple" in the Mohawk language. Seems a bit cutesy to me, eh. In any event, it really doesn't taste like much. Kind of like someone put a single drop of maple syrup in a bottle of water and shook it up. I can see why people claim it has health benefits, they must be too lazy to make the actual syrup, so they are selling the raw ingredients. Those hosers. So at the end of the day I suggest you save your money, maybe the next health craze will be more exciting. Found at The Fresh Market in 2014.

Currently in October 2025 Wahta Pure Maple Water once promised the taste of the Canadian wilderness in a bottle. Now, in 2025, it’s more like a ghost story whispered over pancakes. The brand’s website has vanished into the digital woods, and its Facebook page is as lively as a maple tree in February. You can still spot a few bottles online—on Instacart, in European specialty shops, and maybe in a hoarder’s pantry next to expired kale chips—but the days of finding it at The Fresh Market are long gone.

Turns out, maple water didn’t become the next coconut water; it became the next “remember that weird drink phase?” Some companies like Seva and Maple3 still tap the trend, but Wahta seems to have retired to syrup heaven. The name survives on a maple farm owned by the Oneida Indian Nation, where they wisely stick to making syrup instead of selling tree juice (technically syrup is tree juice as well, but we are ignoring that).

So, if you’re thirsty for nostalgia and faint hints of maple, good luck. For now, Wahta remains what it always kind of was—a bottle of barely flavored hope with a great origin story and no sequel.