Learn how caramelization turns sugar brown and changes its flavor and get facts about the compounds produced when sugar is caramelized.

Caramelized food develops a flavor that goes beyond the one-noted sweetness of sugar. When sugars caramelize, they develop nuttiness, bitterness, toastiness, and even a little bit of buttery...

CARAMELIZED definition: 1. containing or tasting of sugar that has been burnt slightly so it turns brown: 2. containing or…. Learn more.

To be converted into a brown syrup: Sugar caramelizes when heated. To cook (food), often with sugar, until a brown syrup is formed: caramelized the onions. car′a mel i za′tion (-mə-lĭ-zā′shən) n. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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