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malt sugar

malt sugar

4.5
A white sweet crystal that forms when grain starch breaks during malting
  • noun
  • /mɔlt ˈʃʌɡər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : azúcar de malta
  • The recipe requires malt sugar for sweetness.

Examples

  • The sweetness in some cereals comes from naturally occurring malt sugar.

  • Barley is rich in malt sugar, which is essential for brewing beer.

  • During digestion, starches break down into malt sugar and other simpler sugars.

  • Many beers are brewed using malt sugar.

  • Malt sugar is often used in baking to enhance the sweetness and flavor of malt sugar.

  • The brewer added malt sugar to the wort to improve the fermentation process.

  • During the malting process, malt sugar is produced as starches break down.

Synonyms

maltose
vsmalt sugar
  • Specialized
1 7.6

A white sugar made when starch breaks down into two simple sugar parts

is the descriptive term used for the same sugar produced during grain processing

Surface Forms

malt sugar singular
malt sugars plural

Morphology

malt + sugar

The compound is compositionally built from 'malt' (grain processed/germinated for brewing) + 'sugar' (a sweet crystalline substance), so its meaning — sugar derived from malt or produced during malting (maltose) — is directly inferable from the parts. This is a literal, non-idiomatic noun compound that follows common noun+noun formation patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would understand it.

Etymology

Malt sugar comes from the word malt, meaning grain that has been soaked and allowed to sprout, and sugar, the sweet substance. When grain sprouts it breaks down its starch into a sweet sugar, so malt sugar means the sugar made from sprouted (malted) grains and is used in brewing and baking.