variety and agro-climatic zone. To avoid crystallization and to make
liquid jaggery attractive in colour, citric acid is added @ 0.04% (400
mg/kg of liquid jaggery), whereas to improve shelf life of liquid jaggery
without deterioration in quality, potassium metabisulphite @ 0.1%
(1 g/ kg of liquid jaggery), or Benzoic acid @ 0.5% (5 g/kg of liquid
jaggery), is added. Liquid jaggery is then allowed to settle for period
of 8-10 days at ambient conditions. Later after filtration, it is properly
packaged in sterilized bottles. Chemical composition of typical liquid
jaggery could be: water 30-36%, sucrose 40-60%, invert sugar 15-25%,
calcium 0.30%, iron 8.5-10 mg/100 mg, phosphorus 05/100 mg, protein
0.10/100 mg, and vitamin B 14/100 mg [16].