Sweeteners articles from COWBERRY

Raw sugar vs brown sugar: one USDA brown-sugar entry, 380 kcal per 100 g, stands for both, so no figure separates them. Side-by-side table, GI, uses, cost and which to pick.

Does honey contain sugar? Yes: 82.4 g of carbohydrate per 100 g, almost all of it simple sugars, beside 0.2 g of fibre and no fat. What the WHO free-sugar rule means per 7 g teaspoon, and how honey lines up against white sugar.

Date jaggery (khejur gur in English) is gur made from date palm juice, a category of its own in the FSSAI standard beside cane and palm jaggery. The legal limits, the solid, liquid and granular forms, how nolen gur and patali gur are used, and how to buy and store it.

Brown sugar vs white sugar: brown sugar keeps molasses, caramel taste and traces of minerals; white sugar is refined. 380 vs 387 kcal per 100 g, GI 71 vs 70, taste, baking, cost and which to choose.

Brown sugar vs jaggery: both are cane sugar, but jaggery keeps more of the cane juice and more minerals, at 354 kcal against 380 kcal per 100 g. Side-by-side table, GI, taste, cost and which to choose.

The best brown sugar substitute in an Indian kitchen is jaggery powder, teaspoon for teaspoon; white sugar with a little jaggery and honey also work. Ratios for tea, baking, kheer and syrup, with the numbers behind each swap.

Brown sugar nutritional value per 100g (USDA, 'Sugars, brown'): 380 kcal, 98.1 g of carbohydrate, no fat and no fibre, GI 71. Calories per teaspoon and tablespoon, the mineral traces, and how it sits against white sugar and jaggery.

Brown sugar for diabetes is not a lighter option: GI 71 against white sugar's 70, 98.1 g of carbohydrate per 100 g and no fibre. What the numbers say, the daily sugar caps, the better and worse swaps, and what to avoid.

Palm jaggery explained: the palmyra (karupatti), date (khejur gur) and coconut palm kinds, how they differ from cane jaggery under FSSAI's standards, what nutrition figures exist and which do not, and how to buy, store and use them.

Brown sugar benefits and side effects: what the molasses actually adds — 0.71 mg of iron and 83 mg of calcium per 100 g, nothing more — how much is safe per day, and how to use it in chai and baking.

Mishri vs sugar: mishri is sugar re-crystallised into lumps. White sugar is 387 kcal and 100 g carbohydrate per 100 g with a GI of 70; IFCT 2017 lists no composition for mishri, so plan for it as sugar. Calories, GI, making and where each fits.

Mishri in English is rock sugar; in Hindi the word is mishri, also written misri. What mishri powder means, what dhaga mishri means, and why no regional names are printed, from IFCT 2017.