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Sugar in Baking: Why It Changes Color, Texture and Fermentation
2026-07-10
Sugar is often viewed as a sweetener, but in baking it does much more than add sweetness. It changes crust color, controls texture, affects yeast activity, helps retain moisture, and influences how products behave during mixing, proofing, baking, cooling, and packaging. In commercial bakeries, these effects become even more important because a small formula change can affect hundreds or thousands ...
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