Sugar
Introducing the Products
Soft White Sugar(Johaku-tou)
This is the most popular type of sugar and used for various ways at cooking.
It has very fine crystals and soft feeling.
Suitable use
It has a wide use like cooking, cakes, jam, etc. It is widely used in family uses.
Calorie
384 kcal/100g
(Source: Standard Tables of Food Composition In Japan, 5th edition)
Granulated Sugar
The crystal size is slightly larger than Johaku-tou. This high-purity sugar is suitable for coffee and tea by its light and simple sweetness.
Suitable use
Suitable for all of foods and drinks.
Calorie
387 kcal/100g
Brown Coarse Sugar(Chuzara-tou)
The crystal size is the almost same as that of Shirozara-tou. In spite of a yellowish color, it has a high-purity sugar to enrich ingredients.
Suitable use
It is used for bean paste of Japanese cake, cakes like sponge cake, boiled foods, sauce of Japanese noodle, etc.
Calorie
387 kcal/100g
Soft Brown Sugar (San-on-tou)
Though it is a soft sugar like Johaku-tou, the color is a distinctive brown with molasses. It has a unique flavor and a strong sweetness as contains much honey.
Suitable use
Suitable for boiled foods, tsukudani, etc. which you want to add rich sweetness and body.
Calorie
382 kcal/100g
White Coarse Sugar(Shiozara-tou)
It is the highest-class sugar colorless and transparent with gloss and a large crystal size. It is characteristic of plain and refined sweetness.
Suitable use
Suitable for things requiring plain sweetness; such as high-class Japanese cakes, yokan (Japanese sweet bean jelly), jelly, fruit wine.
Calorie
387 kcal/100g
Liquid Sugar
It is already dissolved sugar with high purity, high concentration and uniform quality. It is very much used for business use including soft drinks. It is a sediment free sugar.
Suitable use
It is widely used for soft drinks, frozen desserts, canned food, bread, cake, etc.