Description
1. Jaggery | Paagu Vellam is golden-brown colored, soft textured, salty sweet-tasting, unrefined cane sugar made from boiling down sugarcane juice. It is considered to be one of the most nutritious forms of sugar. It has good amounts of minerals such as iron, magnesium, potassium, sodium, selenium, and manganese. 2. How would you describe jaggery? Definition: Gur (jaggery) is a natural product of sugarcane. It is in a more unrefined form than sugar. It is a brown raw mass of sucrose that gets its color because of other elements found in a concentration such as wood ash and bagasse. Jaggery is commonly made from two products, that are sugar cane and date palm tree 3. What does Jaggery | Paagu Vellam taste like? Jaggery is a natural sweetener made from sugar cane juice or palm sap, commonly used across the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Jaggery can taste similar to fresh cane juice, maple syrup, caramel, or molasses, depending on its contents.