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powdered sugar
Sign in to saveAlso known as confectioner's sugar, icing sugar
very finely ground sugar, usually contains a small amount of anti-caking agent such as starch
Nutrition · Open Food Facts
Typical values per 100 g · averaged across 66 products
- Energy
- 399 kcal
- Fat
- 0.1 g
- — of which saturates
- 0 g
- Carbohydrates
- 100 g
- — of which sugars
- 97.3 g
- Fibre
- 0 g
- Protein
- 0 g
- Salt
- 0 g
via Open Food Facts · ODbL
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Encyclopedic overview
Closeup of unsifted powdered sugar Powdered sugar on cannoli Powdered sugar, also called confectioners' sugar and icing sugar, is a finely ground sugar produced by milling granulated sugar into a powdered state. It usually contains between 2% and 5% of an anti-caking agent—such as corn starch, potato starch or tricalcium phosphate—to absorb moisture, prevent clumping, and improve flow. Although most often produced in a factory, a proxy for powdered sugar can be made by processing ordinary granulated sugar in a coffee grinder, or by crushing it by hand in a mortar and pestle.
Use
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “powdered sugar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.