Shan Iodized Refined Salt Available In: 800 gm Made by Shan-Foods

With its ability to offer multiple usage, be it for beverages, cooking or baking, it is the most suitable natural sweetener to replace sugar.Consuming artificial sweeteners does not appear to cause weight gain — at least not in the short term. In fact, replacing sugar with artificial sweeteners may be helpful in reducing body weight — though only slightly at best.

Pink Himalayan salt is a type of salt that's naturally pink in color and mined near the Himalayas in Pakistan. Many people claim that it's loaded with minerals and provides incredible health benefits. For these reasons, pink Himalayan salt is often thought to be much healthier than regular table salt.

Gur (jaggery) is a natural product of sugarcane. It is in more unrefined form than sugar. It is a brown raw mass of sucrose which gets it color because of other elements found in concentration such as wood ash and bagasse. Jaggery is commonly made from two products, that are sugar cane and date palm tree.Consuming jaggery helps in improving digestion, it activates the digestive enzymes and stimulates bowel movement, which further helps in improving digestion and relieves constipation. Apart from that, consuming jaggery helps in increasing the metabolic rate.Jaggery is used a lot during Makara Sankaranti (Pongal) time all over the country. In Maharashtra it is used to make sweets like tilgul, while in Tamilnadu it is used to make sweet pongal (chakkarai pongal), payasam (kheer), etc. In some form or the other, it is included in festive cooking.

1 : a sweet material that consists essentially of sucrose obtained from sugarcane or sugar beets, is typically colorless or white when pure, and is commonly used to sweeten foods and beverages. 2 : any of numerous soluble and usually sweet carbohydrates (as glucose or sucrose) that occur naturally especially in plants.Sugar has several functions in baking. The most recognized purpose is, of course, to sweeten food, but there are many other reasons sugar is used in cooking and baking: It can be used for browning effect, both caramelization and the Maillard reaction , on everything from breads to cookies to cakes.