• Dr. Suman Devi
• Dr. Pragya Mishra
• Dr. Mamta Sahu

The Jaggery industries are grown in different parts of our country such as Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, Karnataka, Punjab, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh. Jaggery is sugarcane based natural sweetener made by the concentration of sugarcane juice. It is available in the form of semi-liquid form and in solid blocks. There are mainly three forms of Jaggery which are available in market i.e. solid jaggery, liquid jaggery and granular jaggery. In India, approximately 80 per cent of jaggery prepared is solid jaggery and remaining 20 per cent includes liquid and granular jaggery. The making of gur and khandsari by using different methods of converting sugarcane and manufacturing sugar, both are different but a great value is added in the manufacturing of these consumable final products. Many micronutrients are present in Jaggery has many nutritional and medicinal aspects like its anti-carcinogenic and antitoxic activity. There was 29 food items prepared with jaggery, vegetables, kheer, modak, chikki, churmura, ladoo, gud amba, chunda and other foods and also use jaggery in prepared of dal usal, groundnut ladoo, sweet poha, sweet rice, Gud poli, Gud puriaamras, karanji, Gud papdi, drink ladoo, sweet bhaji and gulamba, methi, ladoo, puranpoli, sheera,, khaja,, malpua, kayri panna, sweet pickle, chunda dal and value added with different natural flavour. Furthermore it offers for employment of best opportunity to millions of people and Jaggery is known to produce heat and give instant energy to a human body.

Keyword: Jaggery; jaggery products Sugarcane; Value addition; Packaging; Storage

"Importance and Uses of Jaggery in different food item: A review", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.394-398, June-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906493.pdf

"Importance and Uses of Jaggery in different food item: A review", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp394-398, June-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906493.pdf