Coconut sugar
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Coconut sugar is a palm sugar produced from the sap of the flower bud stem of the coconut palm.
Brown coconut sugar
A bowl of gula melaka sago
Patoleo, a Goan Catholic sweet dish prepared with coconut sugar
Klepon; the green flecks within the rice derive from glutinous rice flour mixed with sweet potato and flavored with pandan.
Palm sugar
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Palm sugar is a sweetener derived from any variety of palm tree. Palm sugar is sometimes qualified by the type of palm, as in coconut palm sugar. While sugars from different palms may have slightly different compositions, all are processed similarly and can be used interchangeably.
Three cakes of commercially produced palm sugar
Boiling palm sap to make traditional palm sugar in the village at West Sumatra, Indonesia
Klepon or onde-onde kue filled with palm sugar (gula jawa or gula melaka)
A bowl of gula melaka sago