The Indian Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics

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Nutritional Properties of Neera and Palm Gur


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There are about five crores of sugar yielding palm trees in India. They are mostly Date (Phoenix sylvestris), Palmyra (Borassus flabellifer) and Sago (Caryota urens). The palmyra and date trees number about four crores and one crore respectively. Out of these, only about a quarter are tapped and about 134,000 tons of jaggery are made.
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G. Rama Rao
Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, India
Myna Panemangalore
Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, India
R. Rajagopalan
Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, India

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There are about five crores of sugar yielding palm trees in India. They are mostly Date (Phoenix sylvestris), Palmyra (Borassus flabellifer) and Sago (Caryota urens). The palmyra and date trees number about four crores and one crore respectively. Out of these, only about a quarter are tapped and about 134,000 tons of jaggery are made.