Jaggery– How to detect adulteration in jaggery and whether jaggery is better than sugar can be seen in this article.
Many of us have been using jaggery in our teas and coffees, saying that jaggery is better than sugar. Apart from that, let’s know whether diabetic patients can eat jaggery.
Jaggery preparation method;
Juice is extracted from the sugarcane and the juice is poured into a cauldron and boiled. Dirt is removed during boiling. Clarifying agent is added to remove the dirt. Baking soda, lime extracted from vegetables are also used.
Then the jaggery is poured into another tray and allowed to cool and the jaggery is made into round jaggery, mold jaggery or country sugar.
100 grams of jaggery contains 85 percent sucrose. The remaining 15 percent consists of other minerals. These sucroses are fructose and glucose.
How to detect adulteration in jaggery?
Chemicals like sodium hydrosulphate, super phosphate, sodium formaldehyde are added to make jaggery color bright. Apart from that jaggery is adulterated with sugar and maida.
If the color of jaggery is pale yellow, it has been adulterated. If you shine the flashlight of the cell phone on the jaggery, it has been prepared with too much sugar.
Perhaps if that light does not penetrate it is unadulterated jaggery. And unadulterated jaggery is dark brown and dark yellow in color.
Is sugar good? Is jaggery good?
The brown color of jaggery is due to the essential nutrient called molasses in it. It is removed when sugar is made. And white sugar is available only after bleaching with sulphur.
99% of this sugar is sucrose. This is the problem. Our body breaks down carbohydrates into glucose and sends it to the blood. This glucose goes to the cells and gives them energy to run.
But the pancreas secretes insulin to convert that glucose. When we take too much sugar, the pancreas works a little more and secretes more insulin. This causes the pancreas to reduce the secretion of insulin. This causes diabetes.
But jaggery contains only 85 percent sucrose and the remaining 15 percent contains minerals. However, 25 mg of sugar in a spoonful of sugar is mixed into our blood. A spoonful of jaggery contains 20 mg of sugar in our blood.
There is not much difference between sugar and jaggery so it is better for diabetics to avoid taking jaggery.
Many studies suggest that nine teaspoons of sugar per day for men and six teaspoons per day for women is sufficient.
So there is no great discrimination between flood and sugar, so it is best to use them in moderation.
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