A type of sugar used in making caramel or a process involving the burning and darkening of sugar.
Related to caramel, possibly combining caramel with -an, an older suffix for chemical substances or processes involved in food preparation.
Caramelan is an old technical term that shows how food chemistry had its own specialized vocabulary before 'caramelization' became the standard English word.
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