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Caramelised sugar

Caramelised sugar is sugar heated until browned and flavourful, used liquid or hardened as a flavouring, colouring or confectionery component.

Caramelised sugar — illustrative ingredient image

About Caramelised sugar

Caramelised sugar is sugar heated until it melts and develops brown colour and characteristic cooked-sugar flavours. It may be prepared from granulated sugar or other sugar forms and can be used while liquid or allowed to cool and harden. The name refers to the result of heating, not to a single packaged product or fixed degree of cooking.

Cooks use it as a flavouring, colouring, or confectionery component. Freshly heated sugar is a hot, viscous liquid; as it cools it becomes hard and brittle unless combined with other ingredients. Its flavour shifts from sweet and mild to toasted and increasingly bitter as browning progresses.

Ingredient type
whole food

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English

Caramelised sugar

American English

Caramelized sugar

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Caramelised sugar nutrition & diet

Caramelised sugar nutritional value

Representative benchmark: Sugar, white, granulated or lump

Representative nutrition benchmarkOfficial table values for a comparable food category, not a laboratory measurement of this exact ingredient.

Per 100 g of 100 g edible portion in the named official reference form.

Calories
382.4kcal
Protein
0.0g
Carbs
100.0g
Fat
0.0g

Representative benchmark from a comparable official food-composition category; it is not a laboratory measurement of this exact ingredient. The displayed reference form must be considered, and species, cultivar, recipe, brand, processing and preparation can change values.

The form matters: dry sugar, freshly prepared caramel, and caramel combined with water or other ingredients are not directly interchangeable in nutrition comparisons.

Dietary compatibility

  • Vegan
    Not established
  • Vegetarian
    Not established
  • Pescatarian
    Not established
  • Keto
    Not established
  • Paleo
    Not established
  • Low-carb
    Not established
  • Halal
    Not established
  • Kosher
    Not established
What these diet assessments mean
Vegan · Not established
The available profile does not establish the full composition or processing for this dietary pattern.
Vegetarian · Not established
The available profile does not establish the full composition or processing for this dietary pattern.
Pescatarian · Not established
The available profile does not establish the full composition or processing for this dietary pattern.
Keto · Not established
A defined serving and sourced carbohydrate data are needed before assessing this dietary pattern.
Paleo · Not established
The ingredient form and processing have not been assessed against this dietary pattern.
Low-carb · Not established
A defined serving and sourced carbohydrate data are needed before assessing this dietary pattern.
Halal · Not established
Sourcing, processing and any applicable certification have not been verified. A food name alone does not establish halal status.
Kosher · Not established
Sourcing, processing and any applicable certification have not been verified. A food name alone does not establish kosher status.

For the plain ingredient · Awaiting review. Diet compatibility is not allergy suitability or halal/kosher certification. Keto and low-carb depend on the portion.

Reviewed ingredient entryIngredient reference · Preparations vary

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Sources & review

Nutrition reference: Australian Food Composition Database, Release 3 — F008976 ↗. Values are scaled from 100 g of the recorded edible form. Individual portions have no assumed fixed weight.

Expanded overview, name examples and nutrition notes are database drafts awaiting editorial review. Numeric nutrition values, where shown, have their own source and food-form reference.

The ingredient description and dish connections come from the draft catalogue and may change after review.

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