I stumbled upon this blog who posed this question: Are you using the expensive alternative sweetener, coconut sugar?
I use coconut palm sugar and though it's not cheap (say, compared to table sugar), it's also not as expensive as artificial sugar substitutes you'd normally find in the supermarket aisle (aspertame, saccharin, stevia, etcetra). It's not even close to the price of maple syrup.
All right, let's say that another way: Coconut sugar is not equal to palm sugar.
You may have heard of "AminoSweet" being touted as "low calorie sweetener that tastes exactly like sugar." Well, it's the same old Aspartame that you've known of. (Yes, that controversial Aspartame.)
Consumers have found it confusing. They now know there's Coco Palm Sugar but all they often see are "Palm Sugars" in the market. So, what's the difference and how can you tell them apart.
The good news is that I'm happy that people have discovered about coco palm sugars. Now, the bad news is how to tell them apart from the generic "palm sugar" moniker.
You may have heard of sugar palm trees. They're actually a reference for a group of palm trees from which sugars or syrups are derived, and not a particular kind of palm tree.
The palm sugar trees are:
