Sweeteners articles from COWBERRY

How is mishri made: sugar is dissolved in hot water, boiled to the one-thread stage and left on threads or in trays to crystallise into hard lumps; dhaga mishri grows on a thread. The steps, the mistakes and a stage table.

Honey vs sugar: 304 kcal and 82.4 g carbs per 100 g against 387 kcal and 100 g, a GI of 63 against 70, and a heavier spoon that flips the per-spoon comparison. Taste, cooking, cost and which for whom.

Jaggery vs sugar: jaggery keeps small amounts of minerals and the molasses flavour, but both are sugar at 354 and 387 kcal per 100 g. Side-by-side nutrition with honey, glycemic index, taste and cooking, cost, and which suits whom.

Honey nutritional value per 100 g: 304 kcal, 82.4 g of carbs, 0.3 g protein, no fat, 0.2 g fibre, plus mineral traces from potassium to zinc. What each figure becomes per teaspoon and tablespoon.

Jaggery calories and nutrition per 100 g from IFCT 2017, per teaspoon, tablespoon and piece, how much of it is sugar, the minerals a real serving gives, and why no glycemic index is quoted for jaggery.

Jaggery in pregnancy can be eaten in small amounts, but it counts as added sugar: 354 kcal per 100 g and far too little iron to replace your tablets. How much, better and worse options, what to avoid, and why gestational diabetes changes the answer.

Honey in pregnancy: no honey ban in the WHO or Indian guidance, but a sugar to count, 21 kcal a teaspoon. The botulism rule is written for babies; trimesters, spoon arithmetic, weight-gain bands and when to ask the doctor.

Is jaggery good for weight loss? No: at 354 kcal per 100 g it has about the same energy as sugar, so swapping one for the other does not cut calories. Where a little gur still fits, the calories per teaspoon and per piece, what to avoid, and how much sugar a day is too much.

Honey glycemic index: GI 63, the mean of seven plain-honey tests recorded from 49 to 87, against 70 for white sugar and 71 for brown sugar. Why the range, how the bands work and what one spoon means.

Ten honest jaggery benefits, each with its IFCT 2017 number or source and the serving-size caveat, followed by the side effects, who should limit gur, how much fits in a day under the WHO sugars limit, and how to eat it.

Best honey for weight loss? The honest answer is the one you use least: honey is a free sugar at 21 kcal a teaspoon, and trials say weight moves with total sugars, not the sweetener. Calories per spoon, the WHO body-weight trials, what to avoid.

Is honey good for diabetes? No, not as a special sweetener: honey is 82.4 g of carbohydrate per 100 g with a GI of 63, and in a crossover trial it behaved like plain sucrose. What the research shows, carbs per spoon, how much could fit and what to avoid.