Should You Replace Sugar With Jaggery? Celeb Nutritionist Rujuta Diwekar Explains

The festive season makes for the best time to discuss sweets. With Diwali just around the corner, we have been planning on preparing a range of delicacies at home. Also, in general, if you see, our taste and choices of sweets keep changing with the time or season all through the year. Are you someone who is worried about consuming too much sugar? Or are you among those who think that adding jaggery to sweets instead of sugar will make them healthy? Celebrity nutritionist Rujuta Diwekar has a different story to tell. She has shared a post on Instagram stating how the use of sugar and jaggery must be dependent on the changing seasons and other food combinations.

_{Jaggery is often used as a substitute for sugar, but Rujuta Diwekar reveals that shouldn’t be the case.}

Here’s What Rujuta Diwekar Revealed About Using Jaggery Instead Of Sugar:

1) Jaggery is not a replacement for sugar. Many people may feel like putting jaggery into homemade sweets instead of sugar will make the delicacies healthy. However, that’s not quite true as suggested by the expert.

2) Rujuta Diwekar explained that the usage of jaggery and sugar in households should be based on the different seasons and basically, which other ingredients are you planning on combining with the two respectively.

3) Mostly, you should use jaggery in the winter season and sugar in the summer.

4) The ceebrity nutritionist also mentioned that sweet treats that are prepared during the winter season including gur poli, til chikki, gond laddoo, bajra roti, usually carry jaggery.

5) Sugar can be used in the summer season while making sharbat, tea or coffee, shrikhand, karanji, gujiya, among others.

Watch The Full Video Shared By Rujuta Diwekar Here:

(Also Read: What is Jaggery (Gur) and How is it Made?)

Here Are Some Traditional Dessert Recipes That You Can Make With Gur In Winter And Sugar In Summers:

1) Gur ki Roti

This humble dish gets ready in just twenty minutes. It includes a roti made with the usual wheat flour soaked in a mixture of milk and gur. People like to have gur ki roti with a dollop of ghee on top.

2) Peanut Chikki

The winter season is just around the corner and so, get ready to treat yourself to some traditional sweet treats. Peanut chikki is a crispy snack prepared with hardly three ingredients – peanuts, jaggery and butter.   

3) Gur ke Chawal

This rice dish is perfect to beat your hunger pangs while you are also craving something sweet. In this, rice is sweetened with gur and is also relished with some warm milk.

(Also Read: How To Purchase Jaggery – Expert Tips To Avoid Adulterated Gud)

_{Try Gur wale Chawal instead of sugar for a wholesome winter dessert.} 

4) Shrikhand

You’ve got to use sugar in this hit summer recipe. The hottest time of the year is incomplete without this delectable, creamy dessert. Shrikhand prepared with yoghurt, sugar, and milk is spruced up with some cardamom powder, dry fruits, saffron and rose essence.    

5) Summer Fruits with Homemade Custard

A lot of people binge on ice creams, smoothies, shakes and other similar desserts during the summer season. This light-flavoured, thick and creamy sweet delight is yummy and carries the goodness of seasonal fruits.