Icing Sugar
Südzucker Icing Sugar is made by grinding sugar. It is a fine, refined powdered beet sugar. Our special conditioning process minimises the risk of lumps in the finished product.
Südzucker’s Icing Sugar portfolio comprises:
- Pure Icing Sugar
- Icing Sugar with starch as an anticaking agent
Our different types of Icing Sugar are widely used in bakery products (e.g. as coating), sugar confectionery applications, in coatings for the sweets industry, and as excipients in pharma applications.
Our beet sugar-based icing sugar is also available in EU-organic quality (Organic Certification DE-ÖKO-003).
General Benefits of Icing Sugar
- Dissolves quickly
- Can shorten mixing times
- Very white colour
- Free flowing
- Small, consistent particle size
- Halal and kosher-certified
- Available in EU-organic quality
- All Icing Sugars are non-GMO
Basic Product Information
Südzucker’s Icing Sugars are available in a range of particle sizes. For the Icing Sugars with starch, we use potato or corn as the anticaking agent.
Icing Sugar Product | Crystal size for minimum 80% weight in sugar | Anticaking agents |
Pure Icing Sugar | 0.08mm – 0.1mm | No |
Icing Sugar with Starch | 0.08mm – 0.1mm | Starch derived from potatoes or corn |
We also produce Icing Sugars in conformity with the European Pharmacopoeia (EP/PhEur) standards. If you’d like to know more about our sucrose-based excipients, please have a look here. look here.
We can supply our Icing Sugars in different bag sizes – 10 kg bags, 25 kg bags and 1000 kg big bags. To find out which products are available in what packaging unit, please contact us.
According to European Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 regarding food information to consumers (annex X, 1d), an indication of the date of minimum durability (‘best before’/ ‘used by’ date) is not required for solid sugar such as Icing Sugar.
*depending on your choice of product
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Raftisnow®
Mainly used on baked goods, Raftisnow® is a high-quality, fine, white decorative Icing sugar that will ensure stability when used for dusting on chilled and frozen products, or in a high-humidity environment.
Raftisnow® Benefits
- Stable, retains its dusting quality
- Suitable for freeze-thaw and chilled applications
- Free flowing
- Halal and kosher-certified
- Non-GMO
Basic Product Information
To produce Raftisnow®, we coat Icing Sugar particles with a film of RSPO certified palm fat and non-GMO wheat starch.
Product name | Vegetable fat | Melting point |
Raftisnow® SG | Palm fat | 38°C |
Raftisnow® Extra SG | Palm fat | 55°C – 60°C |
Raftisnow® Palm free | Cocoa butter | 30°C – 35°C |
We can supply Raftisnow® in different bag sizes – 10 kg bags, 25 kg bags and 1000 kg big bags. To find out which products are available in what packaging units, please contact us.
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Dominique Demets, Product Manager Icing Sugar + Raftisnow