Indian dry fruit chikki is made by cooking dry fruits with grated jaggery. Jaggery (or gur) is prepared from sugar. To obtain it, raw concentrated sugar cane juice is solidified. Although jaggery is also made from the sap of coconut and date palm, the one made from sugar cane is the one that's used most widely. It has some amazing health benefits like it is considered as something better than white sugar and has amazing ability to cleanse the body from inside. It helps digestion and has healthy amount of minerals.
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