Do you need sugar for coffee? Will sugar change the flavor of coffee?

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When we drink coffee, we always like to add milk or sugar to our coffee cups. However, we found that, affected by different regions and cultures, there are more and more types of sugar bags matching coffee, including crude sugar, fine sugar, yellow sugar (cane sugar) and white sugar (white granulated sugar). What kind of sugar is good for coffee?

Italian coffee with white sugar

Drinking milk tea with white sugar is an answer that most people have a consensus on, but drinking coffee with white sugar or yellow sugar is more controversial. Italian coffee originating in Europe traditionally contains white sugar, or even powdered sugar finer than sugar. But coffee culture spread to Asia, first to Japan, Taiwan, then Hong Kong and even mainland China, the concept of coffee and sugar and milk has been very common, there is no mention of white sugar or yellow sugar is the traditional authentic, sugar choice can be determined according to personal taste.

Yellow sugar has a caramel flavor. White sugar is pure sweet.

As for whether white sugar and yellow sugar have an effect on the taste of coffee, the answer is yes, just like the principle of cooking spices. If yellow sugar refers to Raw Sugar (cane sugar) rather than the so-called "yellow sugar" dyed, sugar itself with sugar cane sweetness, coffee added to the cup will make coffee with a little sugar cane and caramel taste; and white sugar refined, will only add pure sweetness to coffee.

Yellow sugar is more popular

Brown sugar is generally thicker than white sugar. Does it affect the taste of coffee because of its slow dissolution rate? The coarseness and fineness of yellow sugar commonly used in the market have little effect on the taste of coffee. In fact, in addition to white sugar and yellow sugar, you can also try to add honey, maple sugar and brown sugar to the taste of coffee. Even supermarkets sell various blended coffee sugars. Coffee lovers generally prefer to choose cane sugar, because the ingredients are more natural, containing fewer additives, most people think it is healthier. The sweetness of white granulated sugar is direct, but modern people emphasize health, and cane sugar with lower refining degree has become the choice of many people.

We can test to see how different sugars change in coffee.

It was found that when coffee and sugar were mixed, the two sweetest sugars were pure sucrose (A) and dark brown sugar (K), and everyone had the highest degree of agreement on dark brown sugar. But for raw cane sugar, the degree of uniformity of opinion is general. The most significant result we got was that raw sucrose (brown sugar) hardly increased the sweetness of coffee.

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