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Cane jaggery

Cane jaggery is an unrefined cane-sugar sweetener used in desserts, drinks, and savory dishes.

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About Cane jaggery

Cane jaggery is a traditional sweetener made by concentrating sugar-cane juice and setting the syrup into a solid mass rather than refining it into separate white sugar crystals. It is grated, shaved, crumbled, or melted into desserts, drinks, sauces, marinades, and savoury dishes. Regional styles vary in moisture, colour, and firmness.

It usually has a warm caramel-like flavour with molasses, toasted, or lightly earthy notes. Texture ranges from hard and brittle to soft, crumbly, or granular, depending on concentration and storage. When dissolved, it adds a deep brown sweetness and a rounded flavour to liquids and cooked mixtures.

Cane jaggery ranges from golden brown to very dark brown and may be sold in blocks, cakes, cones, chunks, or granules. Grating and crumbling expose a dry, irregular surface, while melting turns it into a thick syrup. Clarifying, concentrating, moulding, and drying affect colour, grain, hardness, and flavour.

Ingredient type
sweetener

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Desserts

Ingredient connections awaiting review · Coverage is still growing, including packaged snacks.

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Local names for cane jaggery

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cane jaggery

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Cane jaggery nutrition & diet

Cane jaggery nutritional value

Reference: Jaggery, sugarcane, solid

Per 100 g of the edible portion of the stated reference food.

Calories
385kcal
Protein
0.5g
Carbs
95.4g
Fat
0.1g

Per 100 g edible portion. Shaheen et al., Food Composition Table for Bangladesh, University of Dhaka (2013), FAO repository. The energy cell reports (kcal) followed by kJ; these figures use kcal. Carbohydrate is available carbohydrate by difference. This reference describes the named food form, not every cultivar, brand or recipe.

Portions & preparation

Record jaggery as sold, such as a block, granule, powder, or dissolved syrup, and use the edible sweetener portion. Moisture, crystallization, and attached impurities can vary by preparation, while dissolving or cooking changes texture and distribution rather than establishing a universal composition.

Compare the right form: Match to cane jaggery in block, granulated, powdered, or dissolved form, identifying whether non-sweetener material is included.

Diet considerations

Cane jaggery is plant-derived sugar-cane sweetener, but products may differ in clarification, additives, and blending with other sweeteners. Compatibility changes when mixed into dairy, animal-fat desserts, cereal-based foods, or savory recipes; carbohydrate patterns remain portion-dependent.

AI-authored reading notes · Awaiting editorial review. Measured values, where available, have a separate source above.

Dietary compatibility

  • Vegan
    Depends on the version
  • Vegetarian
    Depends on the version
  • Pescatarian
    Depends on the version
  • Keto
    Typically incompatible
  • Paleo
    Typically incompatible
  • Low-carb
    Depends on the version
  • Halal
    Not established
  • Kosher
    Not established
What these diet assessments mean
Vegan · Depends on the version
Check the refining process and processing aids for the particular producer.
Vegetarian · Depends on the version
Check the refining process and processing aids for the particular producer.
Pescatarian · Depends on the version
Check the refining process and processing aids for the particular producer.
Keto · Typically incompatible
A concentrated sugar ingredient; the amount used matters. No serving-level carbohydrate calculation is available.
Paleo · Typically incompatible
This profile falls outside the conventional paleo pattern used here (grains and pseudograins, legumes, dairy or refined sugar).
Low-carb · Depends on the version
A concentrated sugar ingredient; the amount used matters. No serving-level carbohydrate calculation is available.
Halal · Not established
Sourcing, processing and any applicable certification have not been verified. A food name alone does not establish halal status.
Kosher · Not established
Sourcing, processing and any applicable certification have not been verified. A food name alone does not establish kosher status.

For the plain ingredient · Awaiting review. Diet compatibility is not allergy suitability or halal/kosher certification. Keto and low-carb depend on the portion.

Reviewed ingredient entryIngredient reference · Preparations vary

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Sources & review

Nutrition reference: Food Composition Table for Bangladesh (2013) — 15_0004 ↗. Values are scaled from 100 g of the recorded edible form. Individual portions have no assumed fixed weight.

Expanded overview, name examples and nutrition notes are database drafts awaiting editorial review. Numeric nutrition values, where shown, have their own source and food-form reference.

The ingredient description and dish connections come from the draft catalogue and may change after review.

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