noun
Refers to a dark, viscous sugar syrup, often used in baking or traditional sweets. Not a common everyday word; more specific than 砂糖 (sugar).
このパンには蜜砂糖が使われている。
Treacle is used in this bread.
蜜砂糖は独特の風味がある。
Molasses has a distinctive flavor.
黒糖 is brown sugar, which is solid and less viscous than 蜜砂糖. 蜜砂糖 is a liquid syrup.
Compound of 蜜 (mitsu, 'honey, nectar') and 砂糖 (satō, 'sugar'), literally 'honey sugar', describing its thick, syrupy consistency.