Someone at home says it every winter. We checked what's in that block.
Read the guideGrate 100 g of gur
The rest is mostly water. Gur is cane sugar in its traditional block form.
IFCT 2017
What jaggery isIt does. The spoon in your chai brings about 0.2 mg of it, along with its sugar.
IFCT 2017; WHO, 2026
Read this partYou've seen it everywhere. The international GI tables don't list jaggery at all. So where did 84 come from?
The GI tablesMadras, 1987
That's the one-hour reading. The study ran for two.
Uma 1987, people with type 2 diabetes
The studyOver the full two hours
Same high band as sugar. So count gur as sugar.
Uma 1987, people with type 2 diabetes
Both readingsA few drops do a spoon's work. A powder that measures like sugar is mostly another ingredient. The label names it.
From The Sweet Change
Monk Fruit Drops
Monk fruit extract, water and vitamin C
Monk Fruit Powder
Monk fruit, guar fibre and allulose, no erythritol