Do you remember those winter days in your childhood when the elders of the house took a bite of gur or jaggery to curb their sugar cravings? Well, you must know that it wasn't only for satiating their ...

In India, the love for sweets is deeply ingrained in the culinary culture, and a popular alternative to sugar is jaggery. Unlike refined sugar, jaggery is less processed, ensuring it retains essential ...

Jaggery is often touted as a healthier option as compared to sugar. But is it a good option for weight loss? Read on to find out. Jaggery is often touted as a healthier option as compared to sugar.

Jaggery does contain small amounts of minerals such as iron, magnesium and potassium and is less processed than white sugar, ...

From boosting immunity to cleansing our lungs, jaggery has various health benefits. The consumption of jaggery increases with the onset of winter as it helps in keeping our body warm from inside. Most ...

Jaggery, or gur, can be made from palm or sugarcane. But its wide-ranging health benefits are present in both forms. Here are ...

Have jaggery with your meal and it would not only speed up digestion but also treat many other health conditions. Our ancestors used to have jaggery as a sweet dish and even today, you would see rural ...

Sugar cane may not have originated in India, but sugar was first made here and going by the fact that the word sakara made its appearance in texts around 500 BCE (Kautilya’s Arthashastra and Paniniya, ...

Are you one of those who prefer brown sugar over white one or jaggery over the white sugar? Do you indulge in such replacement thinking that the former is better than the latter? If yes, we would like ...

You can soon look forward to sweetening your favourite payasam and other traditional delicacies by using liquid jaggery. Liquid jaggery manufacturing process is entirely organic and does not involve ...

Jaggery making is a cottage industry that provides livelihood to millions but, on the flip side, it has a negative environmental impact as the conventional manufacturing process involves open earth ...

Profit from the sale of jaggery is not agricultural income. Hence, it does not qualify for tax exemption, the Madras High Court has ruled. “If the exemption of agricultural income is extended to the ...