Sugar Vs Jaggery : What's The Difference?

Hello Everyone, This is Amrita Kotak, and welcome to my Channel FRise And Shine. In today’s video, I ‘Shine’ a light on :) the perennial Sugar vs Jaggery debate. Let’s find out which one is better for you!

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More about this video:

This video is part of my food comparison video series (This Ya That Series) where I compare common foods with a focus on whether one is better than the other from a nutritional point of view.

In the video I breakdown the key common points & differences between the compared foods & also address any myths & misinformation that you may have come across.

In addition, when applicable, I provide useful tips as to how one could have a particular food as part of a balanced diet. Remember all foods have a place in your diet as long as it is consumed in moderation.

If you do have some pre-existing condition that restricts consumption of specific types of food, you may still be able to enjoy them under controlled conditions - do reach out to a certified nutritionist such as myself for more details. :)

If you enjoyed this video, I do recommend watching some of my other similar videos & playlists.

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[touquirjamal]

After watching Dhruvv I came here make a vedio on weight gain

[kuldeepk]

Let me clarify more on Jaggery and thus adding a bit more here.
Table sugar is 99.9% sucrose while Jaggery is about 95% sucrose. The other 5% being molasses. So what damage sugar does with 100% efficiency, jaggery does it with 95%.
Basically the amount of sweets we consume has exploded in the last 30-40 years. We need to revert back to as close as possible to zero sugar/jaggery for a healthy life.

sugar uses more chemicals in processing than Jaggery, however the list of problems mentioned with sugar is not because of those chemicals but because of sugar /Jaggery (sucrose) itself. So use or not of chemicals does not make much of a difference.

About our body requiring glucose/energy. Yes we do need it and our digestive system is well endowed to extract it from the most stubborn of the carbohydrates. Our body can extract glucose from even fibres in food. We don't need any processed sugar.

Now as sucrose is the primary content of both sugar and jaggery, let me explain it a more in detail.

Sucrose is a complex sugar made of 50% glucose and 50% fructose.
Glucose is absorbed by the blood and used as energy in the cells.
Fructose is converted by the liver into fat and deposited in places you don't want it to be deposited in.

More on Glucose -
Glucose has a dangerous property called 'glycation' . Which is the root cause of most of the issues highlighted earlier.

Glucose attaches itself to proteins and fats in our body and glycates them . Once it attaches to our proteins this is irreversible. The proteins cannot do their job.

Now higher your blood glucose more is the amount of glycated proteins. That is why people with diabetes have so many complications. The glucose interferes in most of their protein functions.

Our DNA is also a protein, and glucose can even damage it triggering cancers.

The damaged collagen in our arteries results in High BP

Everybody organ you can think of is made of protein and glucose interferes with each one of these.

More on fructose –

When fructose is converted into fat in the liver one of the byproducts is cholesterol. Higher the sugar consumption, more is the cholesterol your liver will make.

So all the fruit juice and honey you consume ends up as fat in your belly and other corners of your body... Some gets deposited on the liver itself.

Good news is whole fruits are an exception....

One glass of orange juice, requires about 4 oranges. However you eat 4 whole oranges, your lunch is done. So basically the fibres in the oranges become your meal...

These fibres also hold back a lot of fructose and does not let body absorb all of it. So you get only the required amount of sugars when you eat a whole fruit as opposed to a juice.

Plus all the nutrition the fibres in a fruit give. When you juice, all of that precious fibre is thrown.

Same is the case with sugarcane. Chew the whole sugarcane, not the juice.

So the bottom line – Both Sugar and Jaggery are as bad for health as it can be.

[SubhamSingh]

Congrats U got a shout out from dhruv rathee 😅😅😅

[linexustjk]

Nicely presented.. Thanks a lot for the concise comparison !!!

[kunjuthakker]

Hi so for diabetic patients we cannot eat chikki or anything containing jaggery

[truthseeker]

First time i came to know that jaggery & white sugar came from the same source. Thank you!

[jagdeeppanag]

So you are saying both are basically same, with all due respect i disagree with you mam, why don't you check how both are made, while making jaggery is quite simple and clean process, boiling the sugarcane juice, removing any unwanted impurities either by ading baking soda in conventional practices where as organic practitioner uses natural alternatives such as okra or sukhlai plant sap to remove impurities then keep it boiling until it solidifies so basically it's just boiling the water out not so much of processed food, Sugar on the other hand is very lengthy & I'd say rather shady process many chemicals such as sulfur dioxide, calcium hydroxide, carbon dioxide, calcium carbonate, alcohol & glysrine are used in making of the sugar, these are just the reported chemicals, no one really knows what they really use, in 2018 a leakage in beas river from one little chadha sugar mill in Gurdaspur killed all water life in 30 km stretch of that river, its water remained dark brown for many days, Rajasthan was hit worse because they drink beas river water, the case was simply closed factory was fined few lakhs to maybe 1 crore, the official report says it was just molasses which reduced the oxygen in water, but it's just a big coverup to protect the factory owners image as the owner are very rich businessmen who also own wave mall & cinemas in all over india, anyways long story short if not for our health we should quit sugar to avenge those innocent aquatic life lost in beas river

[fintastichipster]

What is Jaggery? I will have to try it now.

[goprodigitalgaming]

If jaggery is made from sugar, why is jaggery good and sugar bad?

[theperipateticaccrescent]

How about high carb vs low carb vs keto(like no carb) diet? You can make a video on this....
☀️This for this comparison, it really helped
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[visheshsethiya]

Is it like sugar is mixed in blood earlier than jaggery, even it does, is it significant.

[pavithranpanneerselvam]

Why answer ❓ sugar gooda illa jaggery ya 🤔

[prathmesh_jadhav]

Is there any benefits for jaggery over sugar... Cause every other health fitness channel recommends jaggery over sugar... are they misleading???

[tanmaymhatre]

This is very important video. Thankyou for sharing useful information. Thankyou to Dhruv Rathee for his recommendation!

[xzeroxsimple]

Boston University i.e u made It through USMLE🙂

[SumitSharma]

Thanks for giving such a important information

[visheshsethiya]

Can you please make some videos in hindi too.

[gokulapriya]

But sugar is more chemically processed than jaggery

[abhishekshaw]

Aap India Mein rehti h toh pls India ke logo ko target kijiye by making videos in Hindi or hinglish...!!