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Sugar swap: what really happens when you replace sugar with jaggery

It has a few more minerals, but the sugar load is almost the same.

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Jaggery has small amounts of iron and potassium. A teaspoon still has about 4 g of sugar.

For someone with diabetes, it is not a free swap.

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