Light agave syrup substitute

Golden syrup or light treacle is a thick, amber-coloured form of inverted sugar syrup made by the process of refining sugar cane or sugar beet light agave syrup substitute into sugar, or by treatment of a sugar solution with acid. It is not to be confused with amber corn syrup or amber refined sugar. In 1863, Abram Lyle, owner of a cooperage, became owner of the Glebe Sugar Refinery in Greenock, in lieu of a debt.

He became aware of the fact that a by-product of the sugar refining was a syrup which was usually sold off cheaply as pig-food. He thought that, given some adjustment, this syrup could be adapted for human consumption. His company did well and expanded to London. A tin of Lyle’s Golden Syrup, first sold in 1885. Recognised by Guinness World Records as having the world’s oldest branding and packaging. The tin bears a picture of the rotting carcass of a lion with a swarm of bees and the slogan “Out of the strong came forth sweetness”. Lyle sold its sugar refining and golden syrup business to American Sugar Refining.

This liquor is generally known as refiners return syrup. The free glucose and fructose present in golden syrups are more water-soluble than the original sucrose. As a result, golden syrups are less likely to crystallize than a pure sucrose syrup. The term invert comes from the method used for assessing sugar syrups. The plane of linear polarised light passed through a sample of pure sucrose solution is rotated to the right.

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