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  Jaggery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jaggery is the traditional unrefined sugar of India.
Jaggery is considered by some to be a particularly wholesome sugar and, unlike refined sugar, retains more mineral salts.
Jaggery is used as an ingredient in both sweet and savory dishes across India and Sri Lanka.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jaggery   (376 words)

  
 Enhanced Translocation of Particles from Lungs by Jaggery
The dose of jaggery per rat was calculated on the basis of an average consumption of jaggery by workers.
In Group 4 (coal and jaggery) the initial reaction was similar to that observed in Group 2 at 30 days except that proliferation of macrophages and the dust cell reaction were not seen.
The TLN of Group 3 (jaggery alone) showed hyperplasia of germinal centers in the cortical region with increased mitotic activity and increased population of plasma cell series in the medullary cords.
www.ehponline.org /members/1994/Suppl-5/sahu-full.html   (2571 words)

  
 Welcome to Krutika Agro Produce Pvt. Ltd.
Jaggery is a traditional accompaniment to Indian meals and is also used for preparation of various sweet dishes (instead of Sugar).
Ayurved has suggested Jaggery as a daily Health Nutrition value, Suppliments Food and Medicinal use of Jaggery to purify the blood, protective agent for lung from air pollution, regulates liver function and keeps the body healthy and strong of all ages.
Jaggery is a "natural" sweetener made by the concentration of sugarcane juice WITHOUT the use of any chemicals / synthetic additives or preservatives.
www.krutikaagro.com /whatsnew.htm   (543 words)

  
 The Hindu Business Line : Jaggery traders intensify stir
JAGGERY traders in Andhra Pradesh have intensified their agitation in protest against "indiscriminate'' raids by the Excise Department on sales of fl jaggery on the ground that it was being used for manufacture of illicit liquid.
The jaggery traders and farmers observed a bandh in Anakapalle, the country's second biggest jaggery producing centre, on Thursday, as part of their drive to intensify the agitation.
Jaggery sales in Anakapalle town continue to remain suspended since October 16, despite the recent offer by the State Government to have the jaggery procured directly from the farmers by Markfed.
www.thehindubusinessline.com /2002/10/25/stories/2002102501221700.htm   (334 words)

  
 Florida Entomologist, v. 80, n. 3, p. 402
Jaggery is an unrefined sugar made from palm sap, used asa cooking sweetener in some areas of subtropical and tropical Asia.
In a direct comparison of the attractiveness of jaggery bait of different ages, no female tobacco budworm moths were attracted to bait that was freshly made or was 3 or 6 days old.
Both females and males were attracted to jaggery (exhibited upwind oriented flights from the release dispenser and contacted the bait) in the flight tunnel.
www.fcla.edu /FlaEnt/fe80p402.htm   (2668 words)

  
 YogaJournal.Com: Sweet Switch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Jaggery comes from either the sap of sugar cane or palm trees, and its flavor is described as an aromatic blend between brown sugar and molasses with fermented or wine undertones.
Jaggery can be used in practically any food or beverage where you might want to add a few spoonfuls of sugar.
Jaggery can also be chopped up and dissolved in water to form a syrup to sweeten custards, rice, or even poured over ice cream.
www.yogajournal.com /health/782.cfm   (421 words)

  
 Jaggery
Moreover, the processing of sugar is carried on in mild steel equipment, which leads to a high dosage of Nickel in the mother liquor.
Jaggery (Panela) is a "natural" sweetener made by the concentration of sugarcane juice WITHOUT the use of any chemicals / synthetic additives or preservatives.
It is no wonder that Jaggery (Panela) is regularly consumed by thousands of industrial workers / traffic policemen who are exposed to higher levels of pollution.
www.healthandyoga.com /html/product/jaggery.html   (450 words)

  
 Sweet Sorghum R&D at NARI
Industry for producing jaggery (traditional unrefined sugar) and khandsari (partially refined sugar) from sugarcane is a Rs.
Jaggery of excellent quality was prepared whenever the brix of sweet sorghum juice was at least 15 degrees and when the ratio of sucrose to reducing sugars was at least nine.
For direct heat applications, in addition to jaggery and syrup making units, potential beneficiaries of this technology can be rural agro-based industries like fruit and food processing plants, bakeries, foundries, brick kilns etc. Gasifiers can also be used for drying of agricultural produce and proudcts, and in crematoriums where substantial wood saving can result.
nariphaltan.virtualave.net /sorghum.htm   (2999 words)

  
 Jaggery: Why 'Jaggery'?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Jaggery ended up getting married as well (a common theme with my characters), but this time he wasn't as faithful as Jhary was.
Jaggery the Rascal he became, and has stayed that way ever since.
That's the tale of how I became Jaggery the Rascal, and I've been that for at least 10 years now, and suspect that I always will be.
www.jaggery.com /whyjag.htm   (685 words)

  
 Distillers use inferior jaggery
Although such jaggery is unfit for human consumption, the Excise and Food and Civil Supplies Departments have done little to prevent it from failing into wrong hands.
Inquiries revealed that the jaggery meant for cattle is freely available between Rs 6 to 8 per kg.
Officials admit their inability to check the misuse of jaggery as it is being purchased by the distillers on the pretext of using it for their cattle.
www.punjabilok.com /news_files/oct/oct8_distillers.htm   (345 words)

  
 Mahanandi » Jaggery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
My mother’s recipe pairs the bitter gourd with jaggery and red chilli powder; the result is a sweet and sour, lip smacking good, bitter gourd curry.
Jaggery melts and coats the bitter gourd pieces and ten minutes of simmering turns the melted jaggery into a gooey, thick sauce.
They are made with jaggery and chana dal then wrapped in dough and deep-fried in oil or ghee.
www.nandyala.org /mahanandi/archives/category/sugar-jaggery-and-honey/jaggery   (4068 words)

  
 eG Forums -> jaggery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Though Fresh Jaggery in itself is delicious, (we eat it in the winter in Dehra Dun as it is considered warming), this was even better.
Jaggery is available quite easily in Brussels in the Indian groceries (both block and powdered varieties).
And to see how this "jaggery culture" is to be perpetuated and enhanced, one should look past the household management manuals and to the emerging codification of regional and community-based cuisines that people like Appadurai have analyzed.
forums.egullet.org /index.php?showtopic=35355   (2609 words)

  
 The Tribune - Windows - Feature
Jaggery, which accounts for half of the sugar eaten in India, is made from the remaining 50 per cent of the sugarcane grown in India.
Herbal clarificants and soda bicarbonate are sprinkled in the boiling pan frequently as and when required and dirt accumulated on the surface is frequently removed by scumming.
The molten jaggery is then ready to be transferred to a large shallow wooden tray.
www.tribuneindia.com /2002/20020316/windows/main2.htm   (680 words)

  
 Jaggery sweeter than sugar for growers - Deccan Herald - Internet Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Delay in payment for sugarcane by sugar factories, low prices, transportation cost, cost of harvesting the cane are among the factors adding to farmers’ distress Some of the costs have to be borne fully by the growers.
Meanwhile, jaggery units of Mandya district are buying sugarcane in a largescale from farmers in Mysore and Chamarajnagar districts, paying Rs 1,000 for a tonne.
There is a rise in jaggery making units in Mandya district, famed as the sugar bowl of Karnataka, since past few years.
www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/jul212005/state2023252005720.asp   (509 words)

  
 Cookbook:Jaggery - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
Jaggery is an unrefined crude brown sugar obtained from the sap of the East Indian jaggery palm.
It is usually sold in solid blocks of a brownish-yellow color, and is used extensively in Indian dishes and sweets as well as traditional medicine.
It has a much stronger flavor than refined cane sugar, but raw cane sugar may be substituted in many recipes if jaggery is unavailable.
en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Cookbook:Jaggery   (92 words)

  
 Tinytech Plants - Sugar Cum Jaggery Plant - machinery from India Rajkot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This tiny sugar cum jaggery plant of 30 TCD capacity is ideally suited as captive unit for 100 acres of sugarcane plantation.
The process technician has to be very careful to transfer the juice from pan to pan with a view to ensure (i) Maximum possible clarification of juice (ii) Proper concentration of juice into syrup and from syrup to massecuite.
This is a batch type machine which separates sugar and molasses by centrifugal action.Liquid molasses pass through very small holes of the screen fixed on periphery,while sugar crystals bigger than the holes of the screen,cannot pass through it.Hence sugar is retained inside the screen.
www.tinytechindia.com /sugar.htm   (778 words)

  
 Jaggery - Indian Foods Company (Product Description)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Jaggery is a "natural" sweetener made by the concentration of sugarcane juice.
Unrefined cane sugar is used in chutneys, in sweetened dals and subzis of the west and eaten with pure ghee and rotis or stuffed, mixed with coconut, into dumplings called 'modak', specially made in Ganesh chaturthi because of the elephant's headed God's alleged fondness for this sweet.
Jaggery is also crushed and mixed with dried ginger powder(sonth) and ghee and rolled into pills as a post-natal pick-me-up for new mothers.
store.indianfoodsco.com /grocery/ProdDesc.cfm?itemid=IFDK45&Description=Jaggery&countryid=&countryname=&countryorderid=   (730 words)

  
 The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh / Visakhapatnam News : Jaggery price at all-time high
VISAKHAPATNAM: The jaggery market in Anakapalle, the second largest in the country after Hapur, is humming with activity with the prices reaching an all-time high.
Despite high production cost and rise in demand for sugar in the market, the farmers are preferring to take finance from local agents and send their stocks for auctioning at the market yard under the supervision of the Anakapalle Market Committee.
According to a conservative estimate, the jaggery market had a turnover of Rs.50 crores last year and the traders had to pay a market cess of Rs.1.50 crores.
www.hindu.com /2005/01/14/stories/2005011406240300.htm   (525 words)

  
 Jaggery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A dark, unrefined sugar, jaggery is used in Southeast Asia and India, regions where-we're told-sugar is considered good for you!
Jaggery, which accounts for 50 percent of the sugar eaten in India, is made from sugar cane and is processed by a method not unlike that used to make maple syrup.
India's epic narrative Mahabharata describes how jaggery (and gur, a sugar made from date palms) was used in sophisticated sweets at the time of Lord Krishna's appearance 5,000 years ago.
www.jamesbeard.org /events/words/jaggery.shtml   (142 words)

  
 One Hot Stove: SHF#7: Gooey Gajar Halwa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The jaggery I am familiar with comes as a solid slab, which can be stored in that state for ages.
In fact jaggery is often sold as huge bucket-shaped bricks called "dhep" in the local language (rhymes with tape) but they sell them in smaller novelty shapes too (thankfully, so folks like me can smuggle them in thro US customs).
Where I come from, jaggery is used as a sweetener in desserts but also to add a sweet not to many savory vegetable dishes and curries.
onehotstove.blogspot.com /2005/04/shf7-gooey-gajar-halwa.html   (1545 words)

  
 What are jaggery & gur?
1) Jaggery is a coarse, unrefined sugar made from the sap of certain palm trees, and is popular throughout southern and Southeast Asia.
2) Jaggery is a coarse, unrefined sugar that that has been made from sugar cane juice (in which case the palm sugar will be called gur) and is popular throughout southern and Southeast Asia.
Jaggery is most often available in cake form, and ranges from fairly crumbly to nearly rock-hard.
www.ochef.com /742.htm   (128 words)

  
 SAMEER TIMES - E-Center for Holistic Healing
Jaggery and sugar not only differ in their composition but also in their effect on the human metabolism.
Indian Sugar Research Institute (ISRI), Lucknow has done some comparative studies of jaggery and sugar and has come to the conclusion that jaggery is not only a cheap and nutritious diet for the poor but it is also a kind of food which help in keeping various diseases at bay.
At one time, the chopped off cane used to be crushed in a kolu, which is a wooden or stone mortar in which a pestle travels round and round on animal power, but later this arrangement was augmented with two heavy wooden or metal rollers.
www3.sympatico.ca /sadhnalal/ecenter/ecenterarticles/gur.html   (1568 words)

  
 The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh News : Jaggery-making with `neera' successful
About 18 kgs of jaggery was prepared with 180 litres of toddy, he said.
Making of jaggery with date toddy was already in practice in some parts of Maharashtra.
About 12 kg of jaggery was being prepared from 100 litres of toddy, he stated.
www.hindu.com /2004/10/10/stories/2004101007030500.htm   (332 words)

  
 Toddy Candy and Nectar
The jaggery candies with its distinct flavor and taste are relished by young and old, village folks and urbanites, venerable monks, nuns and laymen.
Jaggery crushed and fried with oil is a welcome diet for minor stomach upset in children.
Jaggery earns a respectable place in the popular Myanmar snacks, even preferred over sugar because of its special aroma and extra sweetening effect.
www.seasite.niu.edu /burmese/Culture/toddy_candy_and_nectar.htm   (1310 words)

  
 UH Press: Books and Journals published by the University of Hawaii Press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Jaggery is derived from the sugars of various palms or sugarcane.
If jaggery is unavailable, serve a caramel sauce with the ice cream.
For jaggery sauce, crush jaggery into smaller pieces; this may be done using a heavy rolling pin.
www.uhpress.hawaii.edu /books/cooray.html   (1175 words)

  
 Search results for 'Jaggery'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Fried dishes prepared from wheat flour, jaggery or sugar, coconut gratings and spices were karachikai (fried puff), mandige, malidi [28] and sakkere burude [29].
Snow white lime, obtained by burning seashells, and washed sand from river beds are mixed with jaggery and allowed to ferment for two weeks.
Snow white lime, obtained by burning sea-shells and clean sand from river-bed, are mixed with jaggery and allowed to ferment for two weeks.
www.kamat.com /cgi-bin/htsearch?words=Jaggery   (504 words)

  
 Daily Nation on the Web
Jaggery owners are demanding compensation in lost business after the Kenya Sugar Board ordered them to close down their mills.
Mr Rafji Jabadiah of Tachoni jaggery sent away 80 workers on Monday and left 45 tonnes of cane in the yard to go to waste.
He said he had been in the jaggery business since 1966 and accused KSB of harassing jaggery millers to protect white sugar factories.
www.nationaudio.com /News/DailyNation/29012004/Business/Business2901200423.html   (377 words)

  
 Jaggery no more a common man’s sweet substance - Deccan Herald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
With the price of jaggery soaring from Rs 25 to Rs 28 per kg, this ‘sweetener’ has suddenly turned bitter for many a common man, who finds it unaffordable.
It has been a common practice among the poor and middle class to use jaggery in coffee or tea or while preparing sweets instead of sugar.
It is being alleged that a few traders are taking advantage of the hike in price by stocking jaggery in their godowns and creating an artificial shortage.
www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/sep062004/s6.asp   (421 words)

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