There’s a Brown for Every Business
Redpath offers Light Yellow, Golden Yellow, Dark Brown, Demerara Style, and Turbinado, each with distinct functional benefits suited to different food and beverage applications.
Light Yellow, Golden Yellow, Dark Brown, and Demerara Style Sugar all give baked goods, pastries, hot and cold beverages, and savoury dishes richer colour and deeper, more complex flavour, with minimal effort. You can tailor the end result in your product by choosing the appropriate Brown Sugar, ranging from subtle to robust enhancement.
Turbinado Sugar gives baked goods, pastries, and confections additional shine, texture, and crunch. It also elevates the consumer’s experience when stirred into coffees, lattes, teas, and steamed drinks. In addition, this sugar adds a subtle, fleeting hint of caramel.
Brown Sugar Benefits at a Glance
Moisture retention
Helps baked goods remain tender and reduces waste by extending product freshness.
Flavour complexity
Adds caramel, earthy, and robust notes across bakery, confectionery, savoury, and beverage categories.
Value add for consumers
Elevates recipes and products into high-value offerings, boosting customer appeal and opening up the potential for a premium price point.
Colour and body
Contributes to richer tones and improved visual appeal in finished products.
Process support
Helps prevent crystallization in sauces and confections, functioning similarly to invert sugar.
Protein interaction
Assists with tenderizing in marinades and cooked dishes.
Bakeries and Confectionery Businesses
All Browns add depth to sauces and fillings (including pastry creams, crème Anglaise, fruit purees) that often come off as just sweet or one-noted when made with granulated sugar. It makes these sauces more intriguing to consumers and with higher perceived value.
Doughs and crusts made with Brown Sugars will benefit from added caramel notes and deeper golden colour. You’ll find that baked goods made with Brown Sugars are more tender, too, and stay moist longer, which reduces waste on the shelf and in the consumer’s home.
Chocolate-based desserts get a boost from Brown Sugars, as they enhance the earthiness of chocolate, creating a dessert with deeper, more premium flavour.
Brown Sugars also possess many of the qualities of invert sugar, including keeping sugars from crystallizing; therefore, sugar sauces or confections made with Brown Sugars are often smoother.
Turbinado Sugar adds texture and sparkle to baked goods like cookies, muffins, bread, scones, puff pastry, and pie crusts. You can effectively double the selection of any baked good in your pastry case by offering a “plain” version and another sprinkled with Turbinado Sugar.
Cafés, Bars, and Beverage Companies
Offering Brown Sugars to stir into drinks creates an elevated experience for consumers and can help set your business apart. Brown Sugars add caramel notes and complex flavours to coffees, teas, espresso-based beverages, and steamed milk.
Simple syrups made with Brown Sugars can easily be added to iced drinks, cocktails/mocktails, and hot beverages, adding depth, richness, caramel undertones, and complexity with minimal effort.
For bar drinks, all Brown Sugars pair well with most aged alcohols, including, but not limited to, whisky, rum, bourbon, and brandy.
Foodservice and Savoury Food Producers
Meat dishes made with Brown Sugars, especially Dark Brown and Demerara Style, benefit from more complex and robust notes, their earthy tones helping balance savoury and umami flavours without masking them with sweetness.
Accompanying gravies, sauces, and marinades benefit from the nuanced undertones and added dimension Brown Sugars bring, and their acidity can help tenderize meats faster, saving you time.
Even salad dressings and soups can benefit from the additional complexity Brown Sugars bring, adding value to starters.