Jaggery looks fresh and tastes well. Well packaged. I had to wait for almost two weeks to receive it but the wait is worth. I will reorder it in the future.

This sugar is very high-quality, and I use it every day to sweeten my oatmeal. It has a caramel flavor and mild sweetness, and it dissolves very quickly.

I don't use it in my coffee because I find that the taste is very strong, it changes the coffee flavor itself, so I recommend this sugar more as a topping sugar. I think it's the same if you use it for baked goods, it doesn't have the same consistency as granulated sugar and the flavor is stronger.

I discovered this in the 8 oz bag version at my local Natural Grocers, and ever since then I won't buy anything else. The flavor, richness, and quality of this product are outstanding and frankly a refreshing change from the other forms of extremely low quality (and bad for you) sugar in the supermarkets here in the US. The quality of this product shines whether you use it raw in some form or, (especially) if you are cooking with it. Put it in soups, sauces, drinks, it will make everything that much more richer, and flavorful. This obviously doesn't have that awful acidic aftertaste of refined sugar that makes one feel weak, light-headed, and just all-around ill. But then again, the fact that this doesn't compare to domino's sugar (whatever domino's is) isn't saying all that much. You will notice the quality of your recipes improving. "Sweet" is our predominant taste sense. That isn't an evolutionary accident. It's when corporations do their corporate things with our health, that's when things go collectively downhill for us humans. I really hope they never stop selling this. To whomever that produces this product, thank you.

Me encanta que el piloncillo ahora lo puedes comprar en granulado y esta marca me encantó. No se hacen grumos y el sabor sabe auténtico. Mucho más saludable que cualquier otro endulzante.

Sugar cane is a wonderful plant and it is sad to me that it is so mistreated and by consequence, so too the people who consume it. This product, panela (aka jaggery, gur, rapadura, etc.), is the unrefined, original form of cane sugar that has a stellar mineral profile, many health benefits and of course an amazing flavor. The problem is that Western culture is completely based on white or refined sugar. Even so-called "brown" sugar is still a refined product. When you refine panela to get the addictive white sugar, molasses is left over. So molasses, an even more wonderful mineral supplement than panela (since it's more concentrated), is a byproduct of the white sugar industry. The problem is that our bodies need the minerals in the molasses part of panela in order to process the sugar without ill effect. White sugar is very acid-forming in the body and is balanced by the calcium and other alkaline minerals that come naturally with the original form of sugar before it is refined. When you consume white sugar as most people do and not panela, your body finds other ways to get alkaline minerals to balance the acidity of the white sugar. Your bones, teeth and blood vessels step in to offer calcium to the cause. This is why out of respect for yourself, for the cane plant and whoever will end up taking care of you when you are ill and feeble, panela should be used in place of white sugar. It is PLENTY sweet and delicious and substitutes just fine in baked goods and drinks. Can you imagine the flavor depth of organic danish made with panela instead of white sugar? One popular panela drink is simply "agua de panela" which is just panela and water. It's practically natural gatorade! You can use the granulated variety like this or if you find it in blocks just grate or slice a chunk in your water bottle before a physically arduous endeavor. One of my favorite things to make with this is a barbecue sauce. I'll tell you the ingredients and you get to play with the proportions!
~Tomato paste
~Brown rice vinegar
~Molasses
~Smoked Paprika
~Panela
~Tamarind paste
~Real salt
~Coconut water if you need to thin out (I like it thick!)
Blend or mix and enjoy a sweet and savory condiment that won't wreck you pancreas, bones, teeth and pretty much every system of your body! Thanks for a great product.