Kampong Speu palm sugar isn’t just sweet. It is characterized by its delicate aroma and special flavor.With its delicious smell of caramel, it stands out for its warm and amber notes, subtly mixing aromas of honey and vanilla.
Kampong Speu palm sugar powderWith its beautiful yellow / light brown color and its slightly caramelized note, Kampong Speu palm sugar benefits, in addition to its sweet flavor, from its aromatic touch which brings something extra to your drinks, dairy desserts, pastries, etc. It is obtained after boiling the sap for 3 hours and 15 minutes and a mixing time of at least 30 minutes. By sieving, only crystals of a maximum diameter of 1.5 mm are retained.
The palm sugar tree, or “Thnot” in khmer (ត្នោត)Recognizable by its spherical head of 25 to 40 leaves crowning a slender trunk that can reach up to 20 to 25 meters, Borassus flabellifer (also called Palmyra palm) is a palm of the Arecaceae family. It is a dioecious species; that is, a tree that can have either male or female flowers, and the sap is rich in sugar.Native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, the sugar palm should not be confused with the oil palm whose intensive cultivation in plantations has contributed to deforestation.Here, on the contrary, the sugar palm trees, scattered over the rice-growing plains, help maintain agro-biodiversity and traditional know-how.Its tall silhouette, rising up to the sky above the rice fields, has drawn a landscape so typical of the kingdom since time immemorial that the sugar palm tree is, like the prestigious Angkor temples, an emblem of Cambodia.