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The first date palm jaggery and sugar factory was established in 1837 at Dhoba near Burdwan in West Bengal, which was the first industrialization of palm sugar production in India. In 1861, Mr. Newhouse built a factory for the production of date palm jaggery and sugar at Taherpur on the banks of the Kapotaksha River in Chougacha. Later, 117 ...
Jaggery is a traditional non-centrifugal cane sugar [1] consumed in the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, North America, [2] Central America, Brazil and Africa. [3] It is a concentrated product of cane juice and often date or palm sap without separation of the molasses and crystals, and can vary from golden brown to dark brown in colour.
One of the more widely known species is Caryota urens, the flowers of which are used to make one type of jaggery (an unrefined sugar), and also to make palm wine. Caryota mitis is native to Indochina, but has become an invasive introduced species in the US state of Florida. They are also one of the few Arecaceae with bipinnate foliage.
Palm wine, known by several local names, is an alcoholic beverage created from the sap of various species of palm trees such as the palmyra, date palms, and coconut palms. [1] [2] It is known by various names in different regions and is common in various parts of Africa, the Caribbean, South America, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Micronesia.
Toddy palm is a common name for several species of palms used to produce palm wine, palm sugar and jaggery. Species so used and named include: Arenga pinnata, the areng palm; Borassus flabellifer, the palmyra palm; Caryota, the fishtail palms; Cocos nucifera, the coconut; Nypa fruticans, the nipa palm
Palm sugar is made from the sugar-rich sap. The sugar palm (Arenga pinnata) is native to the coastal and tropical regions of Asia, mainly China, Malaysia, and Indonesia. The sap used to produce palm sugar is known in India as gur and in Indonesia as gula aren. The coconut palm' (Cocos nucifera) yields coconut palm sugar from the sap of its ...
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A sugary sap, called toddy, can be obtained from the young inflorescence, both male and female, and this is fermented to make a beverage called arrack, or concentrated to produce a crude sugar called jaggery/palm sugar. It is called gula Jawa (Javanese sugar) in Indonesia and is widely used in