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Sugars & sweeteners

Coconut sugar

Cocos nucifera

Coconut sugar is a kind of palm sugar made from sap resin. Cooks use it as a sweetener.

Part used
Sap resin
Family
Arecaceae
Cooked most in
Asia
Top country
Indonesia
Coconut sugar, whole

Photo: Unknown photographer · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use coconut sugar

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Sweeten

Around the world

Where coconut sugar is cooked

5 dishes in the catalogue use coconut sugar. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list coconut sugar among their ingredients.

On the table

Dishes made with coconut sugar

3 of the 5 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Rujak manis

    Indonesia

  • Doko-doko cangkuli

  • Doko-doko cangkuning

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include coconut sugar.

Family

Related forms

A kind of
palm sugar

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What coconut sugar is called

Names in 30 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    Azúcar de coco

  • French

    sucre de coco · sucre de fleur de cocotier · sucre de fleur de Coco

  • Italian

    zucchero di cocco

  • Portuguese

    jagra

  • Greek

    Ζάχαρη καρύδας

  • Russian

    Кокосовый сахар

  • Arabic

    سكر جوز الهند

  • Persian

    شکر نارگیل

  • Bangla

    নারিকেল গুড়

  • Urdu

    ناریل کی شکر

  • Tamil

    தென்னை சர்க்கரை

  • Chinese

    椰子糖

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  • Armenian

    Կոկոսի շաքար

  • Cantonese

    椰糖

  • Catalan

    Sucre de coco

  • Czech

    kokosový cukr

  • Esperanto

    kokossukero

  • Hausa

    Shukurin kwakwa

  • Indonesian

    Gula kelapa · Gula jawa

  • Japanese

    ココナッツシュガー

  • Javanese

    Gula klapa

  • Korean

    코코야자당 · 코코넛 설탕

  • Latvian

    kokosriekstu cukurs

  • Malay

    Gula melaka

  • Malayalam

    തെങ്ങിൻ ചക്കര

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    kokosnøttsukker

  • Slovenian

    kokosov sladkor

  • Sundanese

    Gula kalapa

  • Telugu

    కొబ్బరి చక్కెర

  • Ukrainian

    кокосовий цукор

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos

Wikidata item: Q5139861

Photos

Photo: Unknown photographer · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons