Demerara is used as the generic name of a type of specialty raw cane sugar often used in home baking and in sweetening coffee. Demerara, sometimes spelled demerera, is normally brown in color—the natural color of cane sugar. It takes its name from the Demerara colony in Guyana, which was the original source of this type of sugar, but is produced today mainly in Mauritius. Magnification of grains of sugar, showing their monoclinic hemihedral crystalline structure. ... Demerara was one of the original British colonies that was joined into the colony of British Guiana, now Guyana. ...
Related types of raw sugars include Muscovado and Turbinado sugar. Muscovado is a type of unrefined sugar with a strong molasses flavour. ... Turbinado sugar (popular brand name(s) include Sugar in the Raw) is a type of sugar cane extract. ...
There are many rivers in the country, the three main ones being (west to east) the Essequibo, the Demerara, and the Berbice There is also the Corentyne along the border with Suriname.
The main economic activities in Guyana are agriculture (producing rice and Demerarasugar), bauxite mining, gold mining, timber, shrimp and minerals.
Demerara Harbour Bridge - Was the longest floating bridge in the world.
Sugar cane and sugar beets are the sources of most of today's sugar, also known as SUCROSE (which also comes from sorghum and maple sap--see MAPLE SUGAR; MAPLE SYRUP).
The flavor of raw sugar is akin to that of brown sugar.
Two popular types of raw sugar are the coarse-textured dry Demerarasugar from the Demerara area of Guyana, and the moist, fine-textured Barbados sugar.
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