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Jaggery is delicious and adds a complex depth of flavour to many Indian dishes, but it's important to remember that it is still, at the end of the day, sugar. There is simply no sugar-coating that (because it is already, um, sugar). While it may contain a small amount of minerals (like Iron etc), it's best not to treat it as some kind of health food. It is not. It's a sweetener that is mostly sucrose, just like cane sugar. One of the most common fallacies in India is the "natural" fallacy - the presumption that if a molecule came from "natural" sources, it is somehow different from the same molecule that was produced post-processing. Unfortunately, that is not how chemistry works. Sucrose is sucrose no matter where it came from.
By all means, use jaggery to make delicious dishes and desserts, but if you think replacing all your white sugar consumption with jaggery will make a measurable impact on your health, think again. It's just sugar. If you eat enough jaggery to get enough minerals, then you are probably eating too much sugar!
If you are someone who prefers to avoid processed food as much as possible, then by all means, use jaggery instead of white sugar for your morning cup of tea, but if you don't like the taste of jaggery in your tea, a tiny amount of white sugar will not kill you. Switching from sugar to jaggery by itself will make very little difference unless you also reduce your overall consumption of all sugars.
Citations
1. FSSAI standards for Sugar and Jaggery: [[ Ссылка ]]([ Ссылка ])
2. Is Jaggery healthier than sugar: [[ Ссылка ]]([ Ссылка ])
