Jaggery வெல்லம்

Description

Jaggery is extracted from sugarcane and is traditional form of sweetener used in Indian households. In the olden days the jaggery was used in construction of buildings also.  The important benefits of Jaggery include its ability to cleanse your body, act as a digestive agent, sweeten your food in a healthy manner, and provide good amounts of minerals.

Health Benefits:

• Improve Digestion: it is recommended to take a few grams of jiggery after a heavy meal or eating meat because it facilitates digestion. It activates digestive enzymes and functions like acetic acid in the stomach, thus speeding up digestion and smoothening the process, ultimately reducing strain on the intestine and the digestive tract.
• Cleansing Agent: you may not normally connect sweeteners and sugars with cleansing the body. But it is one of the well-proven benefits of jaggery. It effectively cleans the respiratory tracts, lungs, food pipe, stomach, and intestines.
• Relieves Constipation: Jaggey pulls out dust and unwanted particles from the body, while also giving relief form constipation, due to the presence of fiber in it. As it reduces constipation and stimulates bowel movements, it further cleanses the body of toxins.
• Rich in Minerals:  unlike sugar, jaggery is rich in minerals, mainly iron but it also has traces of other mineral salts. While most of the iron comes through its processing in iron vessels, the other minerals come directly from the sugarcane juice.