palm sugar

Palm sugar is a natural sweetener made by boiling the sap from sugar or palmyra palm flowers until it is reduced to sugar crystals. Coconut palm sugar is made in the same fashion, and the terms “coconut sugar,” “coconut palm sugar,” and “palm sugar” are often used interchangeably. Palm sugar is a sweetener derived from any variety of palm tree. Palm sugar is sometimes qualified by the type of palm, such as “coconut palm sugar”. While sugars from different palms may have slightly different compositions, all are processed similarly and are used interchangeably in local cuisines.