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Black jaggery is a darker cane jaggery: it is made from sugarcane juice, like ordinary jaggery, not from palm sap. Ours comes from around Erode, Tamil Nadu, and is made without hydros (sodium hydrosulphite), lime or other chemical clarifiers, added colour or added sugar.
Black jaggery is not available to order right now. You can order these today: our cane jaggery powder, from the same Erode-area source (from ₹55, ₹109 per kg), or our palm jaggery, the other darker jaggery we sell (from ₹225, ₹450 per kg).
“Black jaggery” is the name for cane jaggery that is darker than usual. It is still sugarcane juice boiled down until it sets, and it is a different product from karupatti, which is palm jaggery made from palm sap. Compared with regular cane jaggery it has a deeper colour and a stronger taste.
| Black jaggery | Regular cane jaggery | Palm jaggery | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Made from | Sugarcane juice | Sugarcane juice | Palm sap |
| Colour | Dark brown | Golden to brown | Dark brown |
| Taste | Stronger | Familiar caramel | Smoky, toffee-like |
| Ours is from | Around Erode | Around Erode | Around Tirunelveli |
| Today | Not available to order | from ₹55 | from ₹225 |
Not necessarily. Colour depends on the cane, the season and how long the juice is boiled, so neither a dark nor a light colour proves how jaggery was made. What matters is what goes into the pan: our cane jaggery, black or regular, is made without hydros (sodium hydrosulphite), lime or other chemical clarifiers, added colour or added sugar.
Use black jaggery wherever you would use cane jaggery — in tea, payasam, chikki, bajra laddu or a pinch in sambar — remembering that its stronger flavour shows more. Like all jaggery it is still sugar; see our jaggery vs sugar guide.
Keep jaggery in an airtight container in a cool, dry place and use a dry spoon. It takes up moisture, so in humid weather it can turn sticky or set in lumps — that is normal. Use it within about three months of opening.
A darker cane jaggery — sugarcane juice boiled down until it sets, with a deeper colour and stronger taste than regular jaggery.
No. Karupatti is palm jaggery, made from palm sap. Black jaggery is made from sugarcane juice.
Ours is made without hydros (sodium hydrosulphite), lime or other chemical clarifiers, added colour or added sugar.
Not right now. You can order our cane jaggery powder, from the same Erode-area source, or our palm jaggery instead.
It is less refined and has more flavour, but it is still sugar and raises blood sugar much like white sugar does.
Not right now. The closest we sell is our cane jaggery powder, from the same Erode-area source, at ₹109 per kg today.
Jaggery is gud in Hindi, so black jaggery is often asked for as kala gud or black gud.
Black jaggery is not available to order at the moment. At today’s prices our cane jaggery powder is ₹109 per kg and our palm jaggery ₹450 per kg.
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