Table 3.

Nutritional comparison of refined sugar and jaggery (Kumar and Singh 2020; Gangwar et al. 2015)

Content	Sugarcane juice	Refined sugar	Jaggery
Sucrose %	10–15%	99.5%	80–85%
Moisture %	85–90%	0.2–0.4%	10–15%
Iron (mg/100 g)	15	–	10–15
Sodium (mg/100 g)	44	< 5	25–30
Calcium (mg/100 g)	13	< 5	40–50*
Phosphorous (mg/100 g)	10	< 5	40–50*
Potassium (mg/100 g)	12	< 5	7–12
Vitamin B (mg/100 g)	33	–	20–25

*increase in value is due to the treatment of solidification and clarification purposes