Ingredients

1086 articles on substrates, cultures and additives.

All sugars4Sugars3Honeys, syrups and molasses1

Sugars and sweeteners

4 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.

Fresh maple sap in a clear glass pitcher beside a maple twig on a warm ivory background

Maple sap

Maple sap is the dilute, mildly sweet liquid gathered from maple trees in late winter and early spring, before heat concentrates it into syrup or sugar.

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.