List of unrefined sweeteners

From sap

• Cane juice, syrup, molasses, and raw sugar, which has many regional and commercial names including demerara, jaggery, muscovado, panela, piloncillo, turbinado sugar, and Sucanat, are all made from sugarcane.
• Sweet sorghum syrup is made from the sugary juice extracted from the stalks of Sorghum spp., especially S. bicolor.
• Mexican or maize sugar can be made by boiling down the juice of green maize stalks.
• Agave nectar is made from the sap of Agave spp., including tequila agave.
• Birch syrup is made from the sap of birch trees.
• Maple syrup, taffy and sugar are made from the sap of tapped maple trees.
• Palm sugar is made by tapping the flower stalk of various Palm trees to collect the sap. The most important species for this is the Indian date palm, but other species used include palmyra, coconut, toddy, gomuti, and nipa palms.
• The sweet resin of the sugar pine was considered by John Muir to be better than maple sugar.
• A sugary extract from manna ash that contains the sugar mannose and the sugar alcohol mannitol.

  From roots

• Sugar beet syrup is made from the tuberous roots of the sugar beet. Sugar beet molasses, a by-product of the processing to make refined sugar, also exists but is mainly used for animal feed.
• Yacón syrup is made from the tuberous roots of yacón.
• Sweet Cicely root
• Licorice root

  From nectar and flowers

• A "palatable" brown sugar can be made by boiling down the dew from flowers of the common milkweed.
• The nectar of mahua can be used to make a syrup.

  From seeds

• Barley malt syrup is made from germinated barley grains.
• Brown rice malt syrup is made from rice grains cooked and then cultured with malt enzymes.
• Amazake is made from rice fermented with Koji.

  From fruits

• Watermelon sugar, made by boiling the juice of ripe watermelons.
• Pumpkin sugar, made by grating the pumpkins, in the same manner as to make beet sugar.
• Dates, date paste, spread, syrup, or powder are made from the fruit of the date palm.
• Jallab is made by combining dates, grape molasses and rose water.
• Pekmez is made of grapes, fig and mulberry juices, condensed by boiling with coagulant agents.

• Carob molasses is made from the pulp of the carob tree's fruit.

  From leaves

• Stevia spp. can be used whole, or dried and powdered to sweeten food or drink. Uniquely, stevia contains no carbohydrates or calories.
• Jiaogulan, has sweet leaves, although not as sweet as Stevia.
• Hydrangea macrophylla Has sweet leaves that are used to make a sweet tea called amacha

  By animals

• True honey, made by honey bees from gathered nectar.
• Sugarbag, the honey of stingless bees, which is more liquid than the honey from honey bees.