Jaggery Purity Test: Uncover Adulteration in One Minute with a Glass of Water

• Ayurveda considers jaggery a medicine, but its purity is now a concern due to adulteration.
• Dr. Vinay Kumar Singh, an organic jaggery producer, shares a simple one-minute purity test.
• Dissolve a small piece of jaggery in fresh water; pure jaggery dissolves completely without sticky residue.
• After dissolution, pure jaggery water should resemble sugarcane juice in color, transparency, and flow.
• Sticky residue or thick, excessively sticky water indicates impurities; pure jaggery has a pH between 7.5 and 9.

Why It Matters: Easily test jaggery purity at home by dissolving it in water; pure jaggery leaves no residue.