Jaggery Vs. White Sugar Vs. Brown Sugar

Jaggery, White Sugar and Brown Sugar add Sweetness to any products. All three products are prepared from Sugarcane or Sugarbeets. How these products are made? What is the difference between all three products? Let's Find out- 

How Jaggery, Brown Sugar, and White sugar are Made? 

• Jaggery, White Sugar, and Brown sugar are made from sugarcane. Sugarcane is crushed and juice is extracted and boiled to remove moisture and dried in sun, Upto this process we term it as jaggery.
• If we Crystallize Jaggery then we will get Brown sugar which has molasses.
• If we refine Brown sugar and remove Molasses then we will get White sugar.  

This is how all three products are made from one food product i.e. sugarcane. Being from the same food source, why do we say Jaggery and Brown sugar is good for our health and white sugar is bad? 

Jaggery is less refined so it has more minerals present in them, especially Zinc and selenium which helps in making Free radicals for your body and acts as antioxidants. Jaggery helps in relieving constipation. 

Brown sugar is converted into Crystalline form, so some minerals and vitamins are lost from them but it has a layer of molasses, and therefore they have calcium, iron, potassium, and magnesium. But since these minerals are present in very minuscule amounts, there is no real health benefit to use brown sugar. 

From white sugar, molasses is removed which means it does not contain any vitamin and minerals. White sugar contains empty calories and will not add any nutritional benefit to our body. Therefore, it is said that if you want to lose weight then reduce or Stop consumption of white sugar. 

If you are thinking that white sugar is harmful and wanted to switch to jaggery, Then What You are thinking is wrong! Because White sugar, brown sugar, and Jaggery will provide the same calories and carbohydrates, the only difference is that they contain a trace amount of vitamins and minerals.

Jaggery and Brown sugar are good from White sugar but if you want to switch from White sugar to brown sugar then the limit has to be there. Consume Jaggery or white sugar or brown sugar, but maintain your consumption level. 

"There is nothing that is totally Bad or totally Good, it is in our hands to make it Good or Bad."