जयपुर, हमारे देश मे लोग मीठा खाना बहुत पसंद करते है। पुराने जमाने में लोग खाने के साथ गुड़ का जरूर सेवन करते थे। क्योंकि यह उनका एक अलग ही तरह का शौक था। लेकिन दोस्तों कुछ लोग ऐसे होते है जो चाहकर भी मीठा नहीं खा पाते हैं। क्योंकि उनके शरीर की बीमारियों के चलते मिठाइयों से परहेज करना पड़ता है। आयुर्वेद में अलग अलग बीमारियों के लिए अलग अलग चीजों का सेवन बताया है जिससे इंसान एकदम स्वस्थ रह सकता है।
साथ ही अपने खाने का शौक भी पूरा कर सकता है। आयुर्वेद मे कुछ ऐसी चीजों का
विवरण दिया गया हैं। जिसके सेवन से शरीर के कई सारे रोग मिट जाते हैं। आज हम गुड़ की बात करेंगे। जो कई सारे रोगों का रामबाण ईलाज माना जाता है। जिन लोगों के शरीर मे खून की कमीं हो उन लोगों को गुढ़ का सेवन अधिक करना चाहिए। क्योंकि इसमें आयरन की भरपूर मात्रा होती हैं।
जो हमारे शरीर के लिए बहुत फायदेमंद होता हैं। अगर आप रोजाना खाली पेट गुड़ खाकर एक ग्लास गर्म पानी पीते है, तो पेट में गैस, एसिडिटी, पेट दर्द कब्ज जैसी परेशानिया जड़ से खत्म हो जाती है, इसी के साथ ही आपको अगर पेट में क्ब्ज की परेशानी है तो वह भी दूर हो जाती है।
साथ ही गुड़ में कैल्शियम की मात्रा भी पर्याप्त जिससे इंसान की हड्डिया मजबूत रहती है। बता दें कि चीनी पोषक तत्वों से शून्य है , शरीर के लिए नुकसान दायक होती है क्योंकि इसे उच्च तापमान पर तैयार किया जाता है जिसकी वजह से इसमें फास्फोरस की मात्रा खत्म हो जाती है। इसी वजह से गुड़ शरीर के लिए लाभदायक होता है,.
13 Surprising Benefits Of Jaggery
The important benefits of jaggery include its ability to cleanse your body, act as a digestive agent, sweeten your food in a healthy manner, and provide good amounts of minerals.
Most of you may not find jaggery attractive as a food item because of the dark yellow color and its amorphous and gooey look. [1] Of course, there are some who find it’s color and appearance appealing and interesting over the white, crystalline sugar.
Health Benefits of Jaggery
The health benefits of this sweet treat include its ability to aid in digestion, treat constipation, boost the energy levels, and much more.
Improves Digestion
In India, it is recommended to take a few grams of jaggery after a heavy meal or after eating meat because it facilitates digestion. It activates digestive enzymes and functions like acetic acid in the stomach, thus speeding up digestion and smoothening the process, ultimately reducing strain on the intestines and the digestive tract.
Cleansing Agent
You may not normally connect sweeteners and sugars with cleansing the body, but it is one of the well-proven benefits of jaggery. It effectively cleans the respiratory tracts, lungs, food pipe, stomach, and intestines.
Relieves Constipation
Jaggery pulls out dust and unwanted particles from the body, while also giving relief from constipation, due to the presence of fiber in it. As it reduces constipation and stimulates bowel movements, it further cleanses the body of toxins.
Boosts Energy
We know that carbohydrates, consumed in our food, give us energy upon oxidation. The simpler the carbohydrate, the sooner the energy is released. This simplicity comes as a blessing for athletes and people suffering from serious fatigue because they need instantaneous energy and quick relief. Therefore, sugar and glucose are proper carbohydrates for them, because they get absorbed into the bloodstreamimmediately to give a quick burst of energy.
But on the other hand, studies show and doctors advise that this sudden rise in sugar or energy level can be a major threat to the integrity of internal organs, particularly in the case of diabetics. In the long run, this may even give rise to diabetes, since the fluctuating sugar levels may affect the pancreas to a point where it may lose its capacity to release large amounts of insulin at once, to counter the quick increase in the body’s sugar level. This sudden uplift can cause severe damage to kidneys and eyes, raise blood pressure, and create a number of problems in related organ systems. Jaggery is a more complex form of carbohydrate than plain sugar. When you eat jaggery, it is digested and absorbed gradually, and it releases energy over an extended period of time. This can provide its eaters with warmth and energy without harming their internal organs.
Rich in Minerals
Unlike sugar, jaggery is rich in minerals, mainly iron but it also has traces of other mineral salts. While most of the iron comes through its processing in iron vessels, the other minerals come directly from the sugar cane juice, since the juice does not undergo refinement or bleaching of any kind. Therefore, jaggery is a very good source of minerals for the body.
Sweetener
There are plenty of natural and artificial sweetening agents available on the market, with good old white sugar right at the top. However, most of them are just plain sweeteners. The benefit of jaggery is that it is a colorful, tasty, and a healthy sweetener. You can experience the difference yourself. Taste plain sugar and jaggery one after another, and it will be very clear to you. Don’t limit yourself to the sugarcane flavor; go ahead and taste the date palm, palmyra jaggery or any of the other flavors available.
Other Benefits & Uses of Jaggery
Seasoning
Jaggery (sugar cane variety) is often used as a lining for the inner walls of earthen ovens and is meant for seasoning the materials cooked inside.
Building Material
Even a few decades ago, jaggery was in use (and still is in use in some places) as a building material, particularly in places where cement was not readily available. It was mixed with lime, sand, and clay and used as cement for joining bricks. Jaggery, which is predominantly sucrose, upon reacting with calcium carbonate in lime and silica in clay, forms strong bonds and becomes very hard on drying. Some examples of such buildings can still be seen in West Bengal and in other parts of India.
Toothpaste
Low-quality jaggery, mixed with the dust of tobacco, is used as toothpaste in many parts of India. It is especially popular in the rural villages where some people, highly addicted to it, are frequently seen rubbing this on their teeth. Definitely, this is not a healthy way to treat dental issues.
Cattle Feed
Low-quality jaggery is often mixed with cattle-feed to enhance its taste and make the cattle eat more. It also sweetens the milk of the cattle.
Hunting Bait
There are instances where jaggery is used as bait for hunting wild animals. It is dumped in the open so wild animals get attracted by its smell to taste it and fall prey to the hunters. Since this derived sweetener also contains salt, besides being sweet and having a strong aroma, animals like its taste.
Religious Use
Among Hindus, it is customary to take a bite of jaggery after attending a funeral, along with Margo leaves, crushed black pepper, and to touch fire and iron, as it is believed to purify. In certain religious ceremonies and rituals, small idols of jaggery, rice paste, and turmeric are prepared and offered to gods and goddesses.
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