Chemistry:List of sugar products

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The following is a non-exhaustive list of common food products composed mainly of simple sugars.

Commercial products

• Barley sugar – similar to hard caramel
• Beet sugar – made from sugar beets, contains a high concentration of sucrose
• Brown sugar – Consists of a minimum 88% sucrose and invert sugar. Commercial brown sugar contains from 4.5% molasses (light brown sugar) to 6.5% molasses (dark brown sugar) based on total volume. Based on total weight, regular commercial brown sugar contains up to 10% molasses.
• Cane sugar (cane juice, cane juice crystals), contains a high concentration of sucrose.
• Caramel – made of a variety of sugars
• Caster sugar
• Coconut sugar – 70-79% sucrose and 3-9% glucose and fructose
• Confectioner's sugar (also known as "icing sugar")
• Corn sugar – dextrose produced from corn starch
• Date sugar
• Dehydrated cane juice
• Demerara sugar
• Evaporated cane juice
• Grape sugar, grape juice
• Honey
• Jaggery – made from date, cane juice, or palm sap, contains 50% sucrose, up to 20% invert sugars, and a maximum of 20% moisture
• Maple sugar – around 90% sucrose
• Molasses (sugar beets)
• Molasses (sugar cane)
• Muscovado – a minimally processed sugar
• Non-centrifugal cane sugar – made by the simple evaporation of sugar cane juice.
• Palm sugar – made from sap tapped from the inflorescence of assorted varieties of palm
• Panela
• Penuche
• Powdered sugar
• Raw sugar
• Sweet sorghum
• Turbinado - a brown sugar with a larger crystals than Demerara sugar
• White sugar

See also

• List of sugars
• List of syrups