Birch sap is a traditional health drink.

In many countries, like the Nordic countries, Russia, Canada, Japan and Korea, the use of birch sap has long traditions. For example in Korea, birch sap has through the ages been considered the "drink of the gods". In Canada birch sap has been given in the spring especially to the cattle, in order to make them recover and gain vitality quickly after the long winter. In Finland and in Japan sap has traditionally been considered a health drink, and in Japan birch sap is defined as beneficial to health.