Shakkar
sugar

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A sweetener, and a quick fuel for the human body, sugar was the first rasa (taste) introduced to a n infant after mother's milk. Not anymore. Read on to learn why.

Sugar takes many different forms today. Leaving aside molasses, gur, jaggery, honey and other forms of sweeteners, sugar is a generic term for a variety of avatars of cane sugar - refined sugar, processed sugar, raw cane sugar. hhadi shakkar, patasha, mishri, brown sugar, demara.

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