Coconut sugar, sometimes called coconut palm sugar, comes from the sap of the coconut palm tree - not the coconuts.

Harvesters tap coconut palm sap by cutting into the tree’s flower-bud stem to access its nectar. Producers mix the sap with water, boil it into a syrup, and allow it to dry and crystallise. Afterward, they break the dried sap apart to create sugar granules that resemble regular table or cane sugar.