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Palm Sugar substitutes

Out of palm sugar? These are its closest flavor matches, ranked by Epicure's flavor-compound model — the percentage is how near each sits to palm sugar in flavor space. Kaffir Lime Leaf is closest at 60%.

  1. 01
    Kaffir Lime Leaf
    60% flavor match
  2. 02
    Candlenut
    58% flavor match
  3. 03
    Coconut Milk
    57% flavor match
  4. 04
    Kencur
    54% flavor match
  5. 05
    Kaffir Lime
    53% flavor match
  6. 06
    Garam Masala
    52% flavor match
  7. 07
    Sweet Soy Sauce
    49% flavor match
  8. 08
    Peanut Sauce
    48% flavor match

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How we choose these

Each match is the nearest neighbour to palm sugar in Epicure, a food-science model mapping the aroma compounds of ~1,790 ingredients across 4 million recipes. The percentage is their flavor-space similarity. Taste as you go — substitutes shift texture and intensity too.

Flavor data: Epicure (Radzikowski & Chen, 2026), arXiv:2605.22391, CC-BY-4.0.