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Functional, Nutraceutical Food not only enhances nourishment but also helps with immune building and disease prevention. During the COVID-19 pandemic, people prioritized healthy lifestyles and embraced value-added herbal and natural products having medicinal value. Jaggery, a renowned nutraceutical made from sugarcane juice, offers many health advantages, including phenolics, antioxidants, amino acids, and minerals. Focus has been placed a lot on food items with enhanced health advantages. Jaggery, with its naturally occurring nutrients, could serve as a healthier alternative to white sugar. This chapter aims to emphasize the nutritional and biological properties of jaggery and jaggery-based value-added products, positioning them as a preferable option to white sugar.

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Jaggery: A Natural Source of Functional and Nutraceutical Food and Healthy Alternative to Sugar

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    2025年

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  • Namita Patil,
  • Gurunath Mote,
  • J. A. Khot,
  • K. Prathapan

摘要

Functional, Nutraceutical Food not only enhances nourishment but also helps with immune building and disease prevention. During the COVID-19 pandemic, people prioritized healthy lifestyles and embraced value-added herbal and natural products having medicinal value. Jaggery, a renowned nutraceutical made from sugarcane juice, offers many health advantages, including phenolics, antioxidants, amino acids, and minerals. Focus has been placed a lot on food items with enhanced health advantages. Jaggery, with its naturally occurring nutrients, could serve as a healthier alternative to white sugar. This chapter aims to emphasize the nutritional and biological properties of jaggery and jaggery-based value-added products, positioning them as a preferable option to white sugar.