Coconut sugar is made from the sap of flower buds from the coconut palm tree. (It’s not made from coconuts as you might think.) The sap is boiled over moderate heat to evaporate most of its water content. The final product is coconut sugar, which is caramel-coloured and tastes similar to brown sugar. Chemically speaking, much of coconut sugar is identical to white sugar (e.g. sucrose). Seventy to 79% of coconut sugar is sucrose; the rest is made up of […]

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