Dilip Kumar, Shailesh Kumar Markam, D. Khokhar, Priyanka Singh
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Abstract
Jaggery, a traditional sweetener derived from sugarcane, is valued for its nutritional benefits and comes in three forms: solid jaggery, liquid jaggery, and jaggery powder. Unlike refined sugar cubes, which lack nutrients and provide only empty calories, jaggery cubes retains a higher nutritional content, making it a healthier alternative. This study presents a manually operated machine designed to produce compressed jaggery cubes from jaggery powder, specifically selected for its particle size (less than 0.300 mm) and moisture content (7.00%). The machine demonstrated impressive performance, achieving a capacity of 5.04 kg/h and an efficiency of 98.33%, producing approximately 20 jaggery cubes weighing 6 g each in about 85 s. A physico-chemical analysis of the dried jaggery cubes (at 80 °C) revealed favorable results, including moisture content ranging from 1.92 to 1.99%, true volume of 34 × 10–8 m3, density of 1.60 g/cc, and a pH of 5.71.Additionally, electrical conductivity was measured at 2.69 µS/cm, with total soluble solids (°Brix) at 94.77. These findings highlight the machine's efficiency and the potential of jaggery cubes as a nutritious sweetening alternative.
期刊介绍:
The journal Sugar Tech is planned with every aim and objectives to provide a high-profile and updated research publications, comments and reviews on the most innovative, original and rigorous development in agriculture technologies for better crop improvement and production of sugar crops (sugarcane, sugar beet, sweet sorghum, Stevia, palm sugar, etc), sugar processing, bioethanol production, bioenergy, value addition and by-products. Inter-disciplinary studies of fundamental problems on the subjects are also given high priority. Thus, in addition to its full length and short papers on original research, the journal also covers regular feature articles, reviews, comments, scientific correspondence, etc.