cane sugar

noun

: sugar from sugarcane

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With its Single Estate rum series, which launched in 2023, the brand is now making rum from cane grown on its own estate, in Mount Gay’s own sugar mill — which means the focus is on making quality molasses rather than quality cane sugar. Tony Sachs, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025 The most popular flavor is the caramel almond crunch, the only flavor that uses coconut palm sugar instead of cane sugar. Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 13 Feb. 2025 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 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 31 Mar. 2025.

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cane sugar

noun
: sugar from sugarcane

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