I'm over 40 years old and never once did I ever spare a single thought about how Jaggery was made. Of course, I'd never _heard_ of Jaggery until I watched this video, so that might be why.
For people who don't know, jaggery is a sugar product made by boiling the juice of sugarcane (the bamboo-like plant that sugar comes from). It is further processed down the line and separated into molasses and brown sugar, being further refined until the sugar becomes what you know as white sugar. Y'all probably don't know about jaggery in the West, but it is often used as a main ingredient in traditional South Asian sweets. It's basically a very flavorful and slightly tangy sugar product. P.S. my guess as to the white powder is sugar from sugarcane or palm, to help coagulate the boiling cane juice
Sugars at high concentration are excellent antimicrobial preservatives. Plus I'm guessing the powder that they add is citric acid or the like to lower the pH, again, as a preservative. This is exactly the same thing that gives honey, jams and jellies essentially infinite shelf-life.
To make jaggery all you do is cook the cane juice until is very thick like honey... some people add flavors to it, but nothing needs to be added... you put in molds and let it solidify... we call this raspadura and can buy in the International foods Isle of most big chain supermarkets.... this is popular south of the border ...
White powder? It's lime, used to clarify the juice. Lime is just calcium hydroxide. It's been used for around 3,000 years to make corn more digestible and increase bioavailability of nutrients such as niacin, which is great for avoiding diseases like pellagra. Even the name of this process - nixtamalization - comes from the original aztec term nixtamal referring to the grain which has been soaked in lime, cooked and washed. I wouldn't worry about a bit of lime in there.
GREAT Video!!! Reminds me to the time, I visited such factory, because I know somebody from somebody.... You know... This is the first time I see that they are making cubes and that kind of packaging. In that area I have been, they made balls with their hands :) I made packages to send to my parents at home and they went slightly nuts, because they had NO IDEA what these kind of brown balls are :) LOL!!!
I lived in East Africa when I was a teenager. Jaggery - there - was like dark brown sugar here in the States. Like, unrefined as opposed to white cane sugar. I remember it was sold wrapped in cone shaped packages made of layers of newspaper. It tasted great!
Jaggery is a traditional non-centrifugal cane sugar consumed in Asia and Africa. It is a concentrated product of date, cane juice, or palm sap (see palm sugar) without separation of the molasses and crystals, and can vary from golden brown to dark brown in color.
Thanks.I had never heard of this item,being a westerner and using sugar.In Canada we use maple sugar for sweetening also a more traditional item manufactured by craft method.
I am sure this jaggery taste really good and if only these people were more hygienic I would eat it. I remember as a kid we used to make jaggery but we never put baking soda and that jaggery was to die for, because it had almonds, cashews, coconut and raisins. It was really good. Also we were super hygienic.
can you tell me what is the more healthy correct process of making jaggery and what is the wrong method .because jaggery nowadays r getting spoilt in a preparation of food fast in 2 or 3 days itself .it is particularly asked as it will be benefitting for temples or any place of worship offering prasads and for many home makers with this frequent complaint .
Jaggery is a traditional non-centrifugal cane sugar[1] consumed in Asia, Africa and some countries in the Americas.[2] It is a concentrated product of cane juice and often date or palm sap (see palm sugar) without separation of the molasses and crystals, and can vary from golden brown to dark brown in colour.[2] It contains up to 50% sucrose, up to 20% invert sugars, and up to 20% moisture, with the remainder made up of other insoluble matter, such as wood ash, proteins, and bagasse fibres.[2] Jaggery is mixed with other ingredients, widely used as a tree pulp additive for pain. Ancient scriptures on Ayurveda mention various medicinal uses based on method of preparation and age. Unrefined, it is known by various names, including panela, in other parts of the world.
Cane juice is very,very sweet.I never liked it. The old folks used to do this & make cane syrup. Cane syrup is a strong,sweet syrup. After I had Maple syrup I didn't want Cane anymore. lol
I believe they have added some coloring, perhaps turmeric to get the strong yellow color. The process itself would yields a brown, light brown color. my 2c
That's not bad. If you saw how many foods in your country are processed, you'd probably freak out at those, too. For example, do you rinse your rice several times before cooking it? If not, you're eating whatever was on the warehouse floor.
Tried not to comment I really did but just one too many and I can't hold in my opinion. This is the way sugar has been harvested from cane and other plants for at least a couple thousand years, I guarantee many of your ancestors ate something made by a very similar process, liked it, lived long enough afterward to have kids. Ok so some wise guy figured out a way to strip out all the nutrients and produce high purity sucrose. Now everyone who eats that stripped sugar is going to get a bite of something completely devoid of anything but sugar. No calcium, no magnesium, no zinc, no molybdenum, no phosphorus, no.... Which method is healthier, the one that might have a well cooked bit of vegetable fiber, or protein from an ant in it and many other nutrients or the one with nothing but energy? Another point is nothing can live in sugar syrup concentration with less than a certain fraction of water, dont remember exactly but something like 15%. That is why honeybees dry out nectar to a low water fraction so it will be a source of stored energy forever, until it is rehydrated. Honey cannot spoil until you add water. That is the whole point of reducing the water content of the cane juice which fresh squeezed would be a rotten vat of vinegar in a week. By reducing it to a syrup or on to taffy or on to solid as in the case of this video, it can be kept for years. Geez people crack a book once in a while, else keep your ignorance to yourself.
This is simple very unrefined sugar, it's very sweet and crumbly yet unlike white sugar has health benefits. They crush sugar cane, mash it up then add water. Impurities are skimmed of the top. Then it's heated and reduced down. Whilst still skimming, as the water content goes down it's mixed. Oil, salt and calcium chloride is added the white powder about the mid point. This is all mixed in until the clear and upper yellow layer are one. More cc is added and it thickens. Finally it's poured into moulds and left to air dry where it hardens and is crystallised. Edit: the white powder is baking soda but if none is available sodium bicarb can be used. No idea why I thought it was calcium carbonate. Please ignore that No water or salt is added as the raw cane nice is viscose enough and has enough salt. The 'well' which I thought was water was most likely cane juice.
It's so boiled that all bacterias are dead. I'm only concerned by toxic chemicals that have been used to grow the sugar cane and cleaning the cooking materials
I think you are thinking of panela. Same base product (cane juice) but it is cooked longer to caramelize and I don't think they add citric acid or whatever that was to thicken
valerio it's a thickener. It's usually baking soda but sodium bicarb or even calcium carbonate maybe used. Reduction isn't enough the water and oil need to be mixed. It also helps to thicken the mix without so much energy and the end product is more uniform.
If all you city folks who complain about this sugar-making process being unsanitary knew how many people had their hands in your supermarket food you would have a fit - especially those who eat a lot of prepared and processed foods.
I know that it has been asked and answered about 800 times in the comments below but i can't help aks one more time: What is the white powder they put in the jaggery?
As for the question about the dumping sugar in it. one of the last steps of making Jaggery is the addition of date or palm sap which is more than likley what the white powder that is being added
first they add lime(sunnam)for make neutral ph after they add soda (calcium bicarbonate) to remove black tettu(molasis) final they add hydros(sodium hydro sulfate) for color .but govt rules 3rd powder not to use.
I'm over 40 years old and never once did I ever spare a single thought about how Jaggery was made.
Of course, I'd never _heard_ of Jaggery until I watched this video, so that might be why.
same........
Mesmerizing...I’m falling asleep! I need to bookmark this for sleepless nights!
Always amazing to see so many people working together.
Judging from the amount of rust, guessing that's where most of the daily iron supplement comes from.
For people who don't know, jaggery is a sugar product made by boiling the juice of sugarcane (the bamboo-like plant that sugar comes from). It is further processed down the line and separated into molasses and brown sugar, being further refined until the sugar becomes what you know as white sugar. Y'all probably don't know about jaggery in the West, but it is often used as a main ingredient in traditional South Asian sweets. It's basically a very flavorful and slightly tangy sugar product.
P.S. my guess as to the white powder is sugar from sugarcane or palm, to help coagulate the boiling cane juice
thanks rakesh
This sweet is traditional here in Brazil, especially in the northeast of the country. It is called Rapadura.
I think the powder added is lime.
thank you
100% hygienic process...
Sugars at high concentration are excellent antimicrobial preservatives. Plus I'm guessing the powder that they add is citric acid or the like to lower the pH, again, as a preservative. This is exactly the same thing that gives honey, jams and jellies essentially infinite shelf-life.
They are adding chemical powder for getting yellow colour
@sheldon pereira it's not naturally yellow... It's naturally brown
The color is gorgeous!
To make jaggery all you do is cook the cane juice until is very thick like honey... some people add flavors to it, but nothing needs to be added... you put in molds and let it solidify... we call this raspadura and can buy in the International foods Isle of most big chain supermarkets.... this is popular south of the border ...
Now this is real work!
White powder? It's lime, used to clarify the juice.
Lime is just calcium hydroxide. It's been used for around 3,000 years to make corn more digestible and increase bioavailability of nutrients such as niacin, which is great for avoiding diseases like pellagra. Even the name of this process - nixtamalization - comes from the original aztec term nixtamal referring to the grain which has been soaked in lime, cooked and washed.
I wouldn't worry about a bit of lime in there.
They are using lot of chemicals, which is giving golden yellow colour to jaggery.. not good
GREAT Video!!! Reminds me to the time, I visited such factory, because I know somebody from somebody....
You know...
This is the first time I see that they are making cubes and that kind of packaging.
In that area I have been, they made balls with their hands :)
I made packages to send to my parents at home and they went slightly nuts, because they had NO IDEA what these kind of brown balls are :) LOL!!!
Would love to get my hands on some of this to make some Rum - good stuff :)
Ok, that looks clean enough
They add chemical or detergent surf powder to make it bright
I love the sound of that motor, just purring along
@Ambitious Guy its an engine running the sugar cane juicer machine
This stuff is so sweet, wow!
I lived in East Africa when I was a teenager. Jaggery - there - was like dark brown sugar here in the States. Like, unrefined as opposed to white cane sugar. I remember it was sold wrapped in cone shaped packages made of layers of newspaper. It tasted great!
Very interesting...
The old Lister diesel plodding away, probably been running for thirty years,.
Huge respect for their hard work
You're right it is really hardwork. ❤️
Jaggery is a traditional non-centrifugal cane sugar consumed in Asia and Africa. It is a concentrated product of date, cane juice, or palm sap (see palm sugar) without separation of the molasses and crystals, and can vary from golden brown to dark brown in color.
mesmerizing - awesome
Don't confuse, It's sodium bi carbonate...enhance and Coloring the sugar cane jaggery...In Tamil soda salt..
Thanks.I had never heard of this item,being a westerner and using sugar.In Canada we use maple sugar for sweetening also a more traditional item manufactured by craft method.
crystal sugar is the root for diabetes and many more diseases..this is called jaggery, our ancients use to use it for sweetness.pure and healthy.
Thumbnail is nice. If along with video process is described it would be of great help viewers.
the raw juice is the best! I make it sometimes and its like better than gatorade.
RubberBandProductions
Most things are better than Gatorade.
I am sure this jaggery taste really good and if only these people were more hygienic I would eat it. I remember as a kid we used to make jaggery but we never put baking soda and that jaggery was to die for, because it had almonds, cashews, coconut and raisins. It was really good. Also we were super hygienic.
What did u put to thicken it?
You don't thicken it, you cool it and it becomes a solid at room temperature
what u ate is called Chikki
It would be noisy but they need a chain drive to keep belts from breaking
can you tell me what is the more healthy correct process of making jaggery and what is the wrong method .because jaggery nowadays r getting spoilt in a preparation of food fast in 2 or 3 days itself .it is particularly asked as it will be benefitting for temples or any place of worship offering prasads and for many home makers with this frequent complaint .
They are working so hard, it wont take that much to make it hygienic.
I'll bet this establishment meets all ISO 9001 standards ^_^
Iso is a joke anyway.
Lime used for thickness and phosphorus for removal of solid particles
What is the ingredient you can add when the process?Is it lime?
Sweet !
Nice
What is that at 1:26? A boiler cap from Chenobyl?
very funny
Good Job
Jaggery is a traditional non-centrifugal cane sugar[1] consumed in Asia, Africa and some countries in the Americas.[2] It is a concentrated product of cane juice and often date or palm sap (see palm sugar) without separation of the molasses and crystals, and can vary from golden brown to dark brown in colour.[2] It contains up to 50% sucrose, up to 20% invert sugars, and up to 20% moisture, with the remainder made up of other insoluble matter, such as wood ash, proteins, and bagasse fibres.[2] Jaggery is mixed with other ingredients, widely used as a tree pulp additive for pain. Ancient scriptures on Ayurveda mention various medicinal uses based on method of preparation and age.
Unrefined, it is known by various names, including panela, in other parts of the world.
Thank you
Sounds jummy! Sugar is a natural antiseptic, so I don't worry about the traditional process.
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Is that a Lister engine from The Days Of Empire ?
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Cleanliness is required in process.
I know you are doing a great job but you should pay more attention to hygiene that's all.
interesante
మీరు చల్లిన ఆ powder ఏంటి br
Respect their hard work, at the same time hygiene should be..
good
Original Gur is chocolatey in colour.
7:28 what is this white powder
So sweet
Looks yummy....I want to taste it
Cane juice is very,very sweet.I never liked it. The old folks used to do this & make cane syrup. Cane syrup is a strong,sweet syrup. After I had Maple syrup I didn't want Cane anymore. lol
What is this powder
Safety First.
I'm wearing jaggery colored glasses
I had no idea what jaggery was before i arrived and I've left little the wiser
its (cane)sugar
Ye modern process hai jitna cooking soda ye 20 kg gud me dal rahe ha utne me 100kg se uper gud tayar ho jata hai
i want to taste it..☺☺☺
Good job
sweet!
Moxigen
Agree with you bro
Highly skilled workers, labor intensive manufacturing. The white powder is salt. Caramel candy is made of water, sugar, butter and salt.
No its sodalime
Salt??😂
I believe they have added some coloring, perhaps turmeric to get the strong yellow color. The process itself would yields a brown, light brown color. my 2c
Nilo Bortolotti the taste of that would be different if u add tumeric. I think it (the color) comes from the white powder
Nice sanitary looking process! Yikes. Different culture, different levels on what is considered clean and safe I guess. Still an interesting video
That's not bad. If you saw how many foods in your country are processed, you'd probably freak out at those, too. For example, do you rinse your rice several times before cooking it? If not, you're eating whatever was on the warehouse floor.
Tried not to comment I really did but just one too many and I can't hold in my opinion. This is the way sugar has been harvested from cane and other plants for at least a couple thousand years, I guarantee many of your ancestors ate something made by a very similar process, liked it, lived long enough afterward to have kids.
Ok so some wise guy figured out a way to strip out all the nutrients and produce high purity sucrose. Now everyone who eats that stripped sugar is going to get a bite of something completely devoid of anything but sugar. No calcium, no magnesium, no zinc, no molybdenum, no phosphorus, no.... Which method is healthier, the one that might have a well cooked bit of vegetable fiber, or protein from an ant in it and many other nutrients or the one with nothing but energy?
Another point is nothing can live in sugar syrup concentration with less than a certain fraction of water, dont remember exactly but something like 15%. That is why honeybees dry out nectar to a low water fraction so it will be a source of stored energy forever, until it is rehydrated. Honey cannot spoil until you add water. That is the whole point of reducing the water content of the cane juice which fresh squeezed would be a rotten vat of vinegar in a week. By reducing it to a syrup or on to taffy or on to solid as in the case of this video, it can be kept for years.
Geez people crack a book once in a while, else keep your ignorance to yourself.
Nice soap..
cane sugar!!!
Im 8 minutes in and still don't know what they're making
Me neither, but the Sound of the Engine is pretty relaxing
They're extracting the sugar from sugarcanes without a centrifuge. That's basically it. It's a kind of sugar.
This is simple very unrefined sugar, it's very sweet and crumbly yet unlike white sugar has health benefits.
They crush sugar cane, mash it up then add water. Impurities are skimmed of the top.
Then it's heated and reduced down. Whilst still skimming, as the water content goes down it's mixed. Oil, salt and calcium chloride is added the white powder about the mid point. This is all mixed in until the clear and upper yellow layer are one. More cc is added and it thickens. Finally it's poured into moulds and left to air dry where it hardens and is crystallised.
Edit: the white powder is baking soda but if none is available sodium bicarb can be used. No idea why I thought it was calcium carbonate. Please ignore that
No water or salt is added as the raw cane nice is viscose enough and has enough salt. The 'well' which I thought was water was most likely cane juice.
matia92 It’s a coarse dark brown sugar. Very yummy!!
i was at 12 minutes when i decided to read comments
organic is the only way of life. looks delish!
Very interesting but yikes no health code here.
It's so boiled that all bacterias are dead. I'm only concerned by toxic chemicals that have been used to grow the sugar cane and cleaning the cooking materials
And this my friend is the reason why they have an iron stomach
In southern USA we make cane syrup, it is not boiled down as much as this was and no thickener is added. I prefer it over maple syrup
Rick Vinson please send recipe for syrup making
I don't think they added thickeners. Pretty sure it was granulated sugar to start the crystallization process
What is throwing... Wight powder tipe...
How to color changing
Pure natural sugar cane jaggery color is dark brownies...
I think you are thinking of panela. Same base product (cane juice) but it is cooked longer to caramelize and I don't think they add citric acid or whatever that was to thicken
मुझे शुरू करना है...
Very nice👌💕
Thank you for the video, what was that white thing? he added in jaggery?
Rosily Victor it’s look like baking soda
I think baking soda
Washing powder or chemical !
Baking soda
That is chemical ( I forgot the name) in place of that if he added the lime water then the colour will be changed into black.
white powder is used for changing colour of jagrrey.
yes
what the white poweder is for and what is it? do i have to add the white powder ?
Also 64kg of sugarcane juice can make upto 11-13kg of jaggery... depends upon the quality and ripeness of sugarcane.
That was baking soda
they're like human honey bees.
Lol, exactly, see what we can learn from nature. Maybe in the future they will grow wings.
some narrative or text would have helped
looks very tasty , but their machines, and tools must be more clean.
They also add chemical powder or detergent surf to make it bright madam maya
''Traditional''
What is that white powder the guy put in there?
Lime
what is the with powder?
valerio it's a thickener. It's usually baking soda but sodium bicarb or even calcium carbonate maybe used.
Reduction isn't enough the water and oil need to be mixed. It also helps to thicken the mix without so much energy and the end product is more uniform.
WHAT DO U ADD TO MAKE IT PURE YELOW ?
it's carmlization fromt he cooking process.
Cane is not cleaned. All waste is also being crushed.
If all you city folks who complain about this sugar-making process being unsanitary knew how many people had their hands in your supermarket food you would have a fit - especially those who eat a lot of prepared and processed foods.
Price of this jaggery box
Don't forget to throw away the gloves after you use them !
I know that it has been asked and answered about 800 times in the comments below but i can't help aks one more time:
What is the white powder they put in the jaggery?
That is the lime powder... natural lime powder... no chemical..
I think it is sulphur dioxide? to quicken the drying process. it is very bad for health.
Soda
@@shivikanayyar5060 sulphur dioxide is a gas where as the powder is white in colour, whatever it is , ITS harmfull for human being
It’s soda
is that a sugar pot
I'm sure its safe ;)
The white powder is Lime. Wikipedia told me so.
I had no clue what this stuff was before watching this video,
And still dont.
it's a kind of sugar extracted from palm
What's vwith all that white powder?
I think that is seed sugar to induce the boiled cane juice to coagulate.
As for the question about the dumping sugar in it. one of the last steps of making Jaggery is the addition of date or palm sap which is more than likley what the white powder that is being added
it farmers recepie . adding date could be expensive for them
Right
What is the name of white powder that was mixed during the jaggery process?
maybe its cooking soda
maybe lime (चूना)
What is that “white powder” being added (@ 7:17) ?
I think its sodium hydrogen carbonate. baking soda
Sulphur dioxide? to quicken the drying up process. So bad.
some sort of bleaching agent, look at the color after wards
baking soda I guess. It's used in a wide variety of sweets, like milk sweet
first they add lime(sunnam)for make neutral ph after they add soda (calcium bicarbonate) to remove black tettu(molasis) final they add hydros(sodium hydro sulfate) for color .but govt rules 3rd powder not to use.
Such a nice judgement
Farmers loans should waive off.
Is that white powder a vegetarian or non vegetarian? I hope it's not bone powder.
i goggled it and its sugar i guess i should have known from living on Maui next to the massive stinky sugar cane mill in lahaina
well you saved me the time to google it
Bearwood Brown thanks
how many tonnes per day ?
Omg😱
What happened baby
I thought it was soap :P
What is the white powder they put in it
According to Wikipedia it is lime (not the fruit). It causes any remaining wood particles to rise to the surface so they can be skimmed off.
Baking soda
Salt I guess
Probably lime
Baking soda
@ 9:00 what is that white powder ?
Lime