Demerara (sugar)

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Demerara is used as the generic name of a type of specialty raw cane sugar often used in home baking and in sweetening coffee. It is normally brown in colour—the natural colour of cane sugar. It takes its name from the Demerara colony in Guyana, which was the original source of this type of sugar.

Related types of raw sugars include Muscovado, and Turbinado sugar.

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