cane sugar

noun

: sugar from sugarcane

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The same four ingredients still make up the sweet syrup popular with pecan pie bakers: cane sugar, corn syrup, molasses, and honey. Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 4 Mar. 2025 Meanwhile, the decline of sugar prices on the global market left US cane sugar and beet sugar farmers unable to compete on price with growers in places like the Dominican Republic and Jamaica, where labor was cheaper and crops were often subsidized. Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 10 Jan. 2025 The product in question is their Black Sesame Crunchy Butter, which is a magical mixture of black sesame seeds, soybean oil, peanuts, cane sugar, and breadcrumbs (yes, breadcrumbs) that’s equally good spread on toast as it is drizzled over ice cream. Alaina Chou, Bon Appétit, 13 Feb. 2025 Strawberry energy chew Ingredient list: Organic tapioca syrup, organic cane sugar, water, pectin, potassium citrate, citric acid, natural flavors, Vit B3/B6/B12, fruit blends of apple, blueberry, pomegranate Ultra-processed? Matthew Kadey, Outside Online, 8 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cane sugar

Word History

First Known Use

1761, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of cane sugar was in 1761

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“Cane sugar.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cane%20sugar. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

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cane sugar

noun
: sugar from sugarcane

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