Cheong (food)

Cheong

A jar of yuja-cheong
Place of origin	Korea
Associated cuisine	Korean cuisine
Similar dishes	syrup fruit preserve marmalade
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Cheong (청; 淸) is a name for various sweetened foods in the form of syrups, marmalades, and fruit preserves. In Korean cuisine, cheong is used as a tea base, as a honey-or-sugar-substitute in cooking, as a condiment, and also as an alternative medicine to treat the common cold and other minor illnesses.^[1][2][3]

Originally, the word cheong (청; 淸) was used to refer to honey in Korean royal court cuisine.^[4] The name jocheong (조청; 造淸; "crafted honey") was given to mullyeot (liquid-form yeot) and other human-made honey-substitutes.^[5][6] Outside the royal court, honey has been called kkul (꿀), which is the native (non-Sino-Korean) word.^{[citation needed]}