Ingredients

1086 articles on substrates, cultures and additives.

All sugars19Sugars10Honeys, syrups and molasses5Unrefined cane and palm sugars4

Sugars

10 ingredients

Illustrative still life of cloudy pale Hyphaene petersiana sap in a clear glass; not a photographed sample or a depiction of Mozambique Utchema.

Hyphaene petersiana sap

Sap tapped from Hyphaene petersiana, distinct from the fermented Utchema drink made from it and from sap of other palms.

Palm sap

Sugar-rich liquid tapped from different palms, gathered fresh or transformed into local drinks and sweeteners; species and collection stage shape its composition.

Two cut sugarcane stalk segments show their striped joints and pale fibrous ends against a warm ivory background.

Sugarcane

Sugarcane is a tall tropical grass whose jointed stalk stores sucrose-rich juice. Fresh cane and its expressed juice feed very different preparations, from boiled sugar and syrups to fermented drinks such as Ilocano basi.

Dry dextrose granules, one form used as priming sugar.
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Priming sugar

Priming sugar supplies fermentable carbohydrate for carbonation during conditioning. The name can cover sucrose, dextrose or formulated drops; the linked cider recipe specifies neither a sugar type nor an amount.

White granulated sugar and clumpy golden-brown sugar sit side by side in matching shallow white bowls on a warm ivory tabletop.
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Brown and white sugar

White sugar is refined sucrose, almost pure; brown sugar is sucrose with molasses, left in or added back. Molasses makes brown sugar moister, darker and more strongly flavoured.

A bare white conical sugar loaf standing on an ivory surface.
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Loaf sugar

Refined sugar formed into a solid cone, historically cut or powdered for kitchen use and dissolved into wine liquor.

Fine white dextrose crystals in a shallow ivory dish.
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Dextrose

Crystalline D-glucose supplies fermentable carbohydrate to starter bacteria. Hydration state, starch source and product formulation remain relevant when selecting the powder.

Modern pressed white sugar cubes with compact granular surfaces in an off-white dish; this illustrates the current cube form, not historical truncated-cone lumps or titlers.
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Lump sugar

A historical refined-sugar form whose name has covered truncated cones and, in later usage, smaller pressed or cast pieces.

Loose white granulated sugar in a plain ivory bowl on a warm stone surface.
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Granulated sugar

Granulated sugar is dry crystalline sucrose refined from cane or beet. It sweetens dough, feeds baking yeast, and helps set particular fruit spreads.

An open clear glass jar filled with white granulated sugar stands behind a small mound on a warm ivory tabletop.
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Sugar

Sugar is a family of sweeteners with different forms and food roles; refined white sucrose may come from cane or beet, while less refined forms add other flavours and moisture.