Products

Capitol Food Company Cocoa Powder is obtained when cocoa butter, the fat portion of cacao beans, is removed during processing. The remaining dried solids are ground into a product that is sold as cocoa powder. This is a high-quality, cost-effective, and SQF-certified product.

Capitol Food Company Granulated Sugar is also called table sugar, granulated sugar, or regular sugar, and is commonly used in North America and Europe. It is made either of beet sugar or cane sugar, which has undergone a refining process.

Capitol Food Company Sugar is a sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrate used in food. Table sugar, also known as granulated or regular sugar, is a disaccharide composed of glucose and fructose. By law, in the United States, sucrose is the only substance that can be called "sugar" on food labels.

Capitol Food Company Maltodextrin is a white powder made from corn, rice, potato starch, or wheat. It is produced by cooking the starches first, followed by the addition of acids or enzymes such as heat-stable bacterial alpha-amylase to break them down further to obtain maltodextrin. This highly processed plant product is easily digestible, rapidly absorbed as glucose, and may either be moderately sweet or almost flavorless.

Capitol Food Company Molasses is a viscous product resulting from refining sugarcane or sugar beets into sugar. It varies by the amount of sugar, method of extraction, and age of the plant. Sugarcane molasses is primarily used for sweetening and flavoring foods.

Capitol Food Company Invert Sugar is also called invert syrup. It is an edible mixture of two simple sugars, such as glucose and fructose, and is made by heating sucrose (table sugar) with water. It is thought to be sweeter than table sugar, and the foods that contain it retain moisture better and crystallize less easily.

Capitol Food Company Dextrose is a simple sugar made from corn. It is chemically identical to glucose, or blood sugar, and is often used in baking products as a sweetener. This ingredient is commonly found in items such as processed foods and corn syrup.

Capitol Food Company Powdered Sugar is also called confectioners’ sugar, 10X sugar, or icing sugar and is used in food applications. It is a finely ground sugar produced by milling granulated sugar into a powder form. This product is SQF-certified, high-quality, and cost-effective.

Capitol Food Company Brown Sugar is a sucrose sugar product with a distinctive brown color due to the presence of molasses. It is either an unrefined or partially refined soft sugar consisting of sugar crystals with some residual molasses content that can be produced by adding molasses to refined white sugar.

Capitol Food Company Brown Rice Syrup is a sweetener derived from brown rice. It is produced by exposing cooked rice to enzymes that break down starches and turn them into smaller sugars, followed by filtering out the impurities. This product contains three sugars, i.e., maltotriose (52%), maltose (45%), and glucose (3%).

Capitol Food Company Specialty Sugars are a range of nutritive sweeteners that include evaporated cane juice, turbinado sugar, sucanat, muscovado, fondant, icing sugars, coarse white sugar, Swedish pearl sugar, Demerara sugar, sparkling white sugar, and sanding sugar. Our products are SQF-certified, high-quality, and cost-effective.

Capitol Food Company Honey is a sweet liquid made by bees using nectar from flowers. It has high levels of monosaccharides (fructose and glucose) and contains about 70 to 80% sugar, which provides sweetness. It also has antiseptic and antibacterial properties.

Capitol Food Company Sorbitol is a type of carbohydrate called sugar alcohol, or polyol. It contains about one-third fewer calories than sugar and is 60% as sweet. This compound occurs naturally in a variety of berries and fruits (e.g., apples and blackberries).