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The work’s narrator is travelling from the port of Batavia to the Sunda Islands on a ship filled with ghee, opium, and jaggery.—
Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
27 Apr. 2026 Once the onions are translucent and light golden, add the garlic, ginger, tomatoes, jaggery and continue cooking for another 5 to 6 minutes on low heat.—
Anita Jaisinghani,
Houston Chronicle,
3 Mar. 2026 Add depth with brown sugar, jaggery, maple syrup, date molasses, or even miso.—
Rai Mincey,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025 It can be made into a syrup, juice or crystallized and refined further into products like white sugar, brown sugar, molasses or jaggery, according to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and WebMD.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
18 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for jaggery
Word History
Etymology
Portuguese jágara, probably from Malayalam chakkara sugar