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Palm sugar was originally made from the sugary sap of the Palmyra palm or the date palm. Now it is also made from the sap of the sago and coconut palms and may be sold as coconut sugar. The sugar is a golden brown paste, sold in tubs, blocks or tin cans. It may be light-colored or dark, soft and gooey or hard. As a lightly-processed product of cottage industry, it varies greatly from batch to batch. Magnified crystals of refined sugar Magnification of typical sugar In general use, non-scientists take sugar to mean sucrose, also called table sugar or saccharose, a white crystalline solid disaccharide. ...
Palmyra Palm may refer to the African Palmyra Palm, Borassus aethiopum, a native of Central Africa. ...
Binomial name Phoenix dactylifera L. The Date Palm Phoenix dactylifera is a palm, extensively cultivated for its edible fruit. ...
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Sago is a starchy, fecula, granular substance used in cooking. ...
Binomial name Cocos nucifera L. The Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera), is a member of the Family Arecaceae (palm family). ...
In Thai cuisine, palm and coconut sugar (nahm dtahn bpeep/buk and nahm dtahn maprao) are used interchangeably.
In Indonesia, sugar made from the Borassus (Palmyra palm) is known as Gula Jawa ("Javanese sugar") or gula merah (red sugar) and it is used in Javanese cuisine.[citation needed] Species See text. ...
Palm sugar is often used to sweeten savoury food to balance out the salty flavour of fish. Its primary use in Thai cuisine is in sweets and desserts, and somewhat less often in curries and sauces.
Other Languages: Burma: jaggery, tanyet; India: jaggery (raw cane sugar), gur (date palm sugar); Indonesia: gula jawa, gula aren; Malaysia: gula melaka; Sri Lanka: jaggery, kitul-hakuru, tal-hakuru, pol pani; Thailand: nam taan pep, nam taan bik, nam taan mapraow;
See also
Preparation of Jaggery Jaggery is the traditional unrefined sugar of India. ...
Reference
External links - An Overview of the Palm Sugar Creation process
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