Description

Palm Jaggery

A sweetener that is packed with a sweeter variety of jaggery, and it offers us a melt-in-mouth flavour. This Jaggery serves us the sweetness of dates and nutritional benefits of dates. Palm Jaggery is known as Karuppatti in Tamil. Palm jaggery is a natural sweetener as well as an Energy providing food, it is very rich in minerals, mainly iron with hints of other mineral salts.

How is Palm jaggery made?

Palm Jaggery is obtained from the extract of Palm Trees. The process of making jam from plant sources does not involve any synthetic chemicals, so all-natural mineral salts are retained without the addition of any preservatives or chemicals. Jaggery is recognized to have various medicinal properties and other health benefits.

Advantages of Palm Jaggery

The advantages of palm jaggery include its capacity to cleanse your body, act as a digestive agent, healthily flavour your food, provide good amounts of minerals. Highly rich in calcium. People often prepare sweets with jaggery. Especially for naivedyam, jaggery sweeteners are preferred to sugar sweeteners. Our ancestors, may not have degrees, but they do know what are the sources of the ingredients, where do they come from and how they are produced. They avoid sugar in naivedyam. Palm Jaggery is having numerous benefits, some of which are penned below.

1.  Energy booster.

It is having a high value in composite carbohydrates, which help in digesting food faster than regular sugar. Consuming a piece of palm jaggery regularly helps in releasing energy that keeps you fresh and energetic for hours. Therefore, it is also known as an Energy Booster.

2. Relief from Constipation.

Palm oil is high in dietary fiber, which can help treat digestive disorders including constipation, indigestion, and improper bowel movements. The dietary fiber in palm oil helps to cleanse the body by removing unwanted toxins and improving bowel movement.

3. Helps in weight loss.

Palm Jaggery is having a nutrient called Potassium, which is responsible for its weight loss property. It helps reduce bloating and water retention, which in turn helps regulate weight.

4. Healing Migraines.

Palm jaggery is appreciated for its medicinal properties. It acts as an effective treatment for curing many common sicknesses, such as dry cough, cold, and asthma. It also helps in cleaning your respiratory tract by dissolving the mucus.

5. Treating Menstrual Cramps.

This is an efficient natural remedy for treating menstrual issues. Eating palm jaggery releases endorphins, which relax your body and provide relaxation from cramps and stomach aches.

Nutritional properties

It is a healthy sweetener, and it is having a rich value in vitamins and minerals, especially it is rich in vitamin B, magnesium, potassium, iron, phosphorus, zinc, and calcium. Half cup of Palm Jaggery (approx 100 grams) contains the following components.

• Energy: 372.8 kcal
• Sugar: 83.78%
• Carbohydrates: 91.48%
• Fat : 0.48%
• Protein : 0.65%
• Amino Acid: 0.359
• Vitamin B Complex : 0.94 mg
• Iron: 4.77 mg
• Calcium : 1167.31 mg
• Potassium : 805 mg
• Phosphorus: 65.89 mg

Palm jaggery in other languages

• Panai Karupatti | Panai Vellam in Tamil
• Tale Bella in Kannada
• Karipetti in Malayalam
• Thatti Bellam in Telugu.

Jaggery vs White sugar

We all can find white sugar in almost every sweetened product like from Peanut butter to tomato ketchup. Experts believe that white sugar can result in obesity and many chronic diseases. Shreds of evidence have proved that consuming too much sugar, especially from sugar-sweetened drinks, has been linked to a disease characterized by fatty, artery-clogging deposits known as atherosclerosis. So to prevent us from all these major diseases, we are here to use Jaggery as an alternative to white sugar.

Jaggery is a healthful alternative to white sugar and is usually known as ‘medicinal sugar’, because of its numerous health benefits. Jaggery serves as a cleansing agent for our body and efficiently cleans the respiratory tracts, food pipe, lungs, stomach, and intestines. It encourages the body to get rid of the undesired particles and thus gives relief from constipation. Jaggery is proved as a great digestive aid and speeds up the method of digestion. Eating a few bits of jaggery after a heavy meal is often prescribed for those having problems with normal digestion. In the body, jaggery initiates the various digestive enzymes and itself gets transformed to acetic acid, thus speeding up the process of digestion.

Quality, Storage, and Maintenance

When we are searching for good quality Jaggery then we should be taken care of the site from which we are purchasing the product. Always buy the product from our website to be assured of the quality.

Self-life of Palm Jaggery? 

Palm Jaggery is a healthy sweetener, when packed in its proper packaging it has an average shelf life of 4 to 6 months.

Storing it in the home is a simplistic process To maintain the taste and quality of Jaggery for a long time, then store it in an airtight container in a cool and dry place. You can also break the jaggery into small pieces so that whenever you want to consume it, You need to just turn the handle of the jar and taste it.

To check our other traditional sweeteners: palm sugar crystals

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