How 20,000 Kilograms Of Traditional Jaggery (Gur) Are Produced In Iqbalpura, India, Every Day

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3 ай бұрын

India is the world's largest producer and consumer of jaggery, a type of unrefined sugar that's used for making desserts, drinks, and offerings to gods across the country.
In the Indian state of Uttarakhand, small factories that use traditional methods produce up to 20,000 kilograms of jaggery a day.
We visited Iqbalpura, India, to see how jaggery is made in such big batches.
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@infonion 3 ай бұрын

My grandfather used to own one of those mills, thought we only processed the sugarcane from our fields. One of my fondest childhood memories was that we used to wait for the jaggery with banana leaves at the end.

@InsiderFood 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

@masaharumorimoto4761 3 ай бұрын

LOVE this series, Big Batches might be the pinnacle of food related content, the jury is still deliberating lol, Dan Does is dope AF.

@InsiderFood 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@dragstar77 3 ай бұрын

Most of these local factories are unaware of the food regulations and even the authorities don't stress too much about whether they follow rules or not. It's quite ironic that this channel's majority of the videos are India-centric yet they always choose to show only the underprivileged and poorer sections of the Indian society 😐

@bubblegumplastic 3 ай бұрын

How is that ironic?

@shivuprasad4333 17 күн бұрын

There are actual factories that produce jaggery with brand and company names and better regular packing@@bubblegumplastic

@manantyagi1309 2 ай бұрын

That is as real as it gets, great job!

@user-cs3ts8no4s 3 ай бұрын

So clean work

@toxichammertoe8696 3 ай бұрын

India...the only place in the world were they still by the moto "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger"

@trolololguy5457 3 ай бұрын

Hygiene is illegal there 😂

@everythingsalright1121 3 ай бұрын

Plenty of other places...central america has that one super polluted river...china, and just look at how much random crap theyre pulling out of the seine trying to get it clean for the olympics (itll never happen)

@just_some_bigfoot_hacking_you 3 ай бұрын

😂😂

@FAliAhmad 3 ай бұрын

Ultron said it to natasha 😂

@khushu8127 3 ай бұрын

Natural selection

@trolololguy5457 3 ай бұрын

The making of it has added in many many flavours 😂

@mokisan 3 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

@cmoonshinez 3 ай бұрын

i accept..

@artmediaz 3 ай бұрын

Seeing the process is interesting, but concerns about sanitation will always be on my mind.

@jeffb321 3 ай бұрын

Yeah same here, fortunately for me I have zero desire to leave America lol.

@debadityanath4398 3 ай бұрын

@@jeffb321 see, not that many people here get sick because of this, i have never gotten sick because of jaggery atleast. this is because we are used to it, and we have developed a bit of immunity. I have never had food poisoning in my life outside of India.

@Totalinternalreflection 3 ай бұрын

Its pure sugar nothing can live in it, it's like honey in that regard, antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal.

@Ra1d_danois 3 ай бұрын

@@Totalinternalreflection 5:17 says otherwise

@I.R_Inori 3 ай бұрын

@@jeffb321you mean the country where sanitation is also questionable? Wow 🙄

@JosePerez1220 3 ай бұрын

I just can’t help but wish these people had a better system in place to have higher food safety standards, working, and living conditions when I see this. Everyone is just trying to make a living in a system that doesn’t seem to support basic things like infrastructure and industry

@pcom9209 3 ай бұрын

INDIAN SYSTEM FEEDS ON THEM AND REQUIRES PEOPLE SURRENDER TO IT?

@khushu8127 3 ай бұрын

@JosePerez don't worry most of the people in power are old heads and will be replaced by the next generation. At least we have toilets now✌️😂

@BkNy02 3 ай бұрын

Yeah, also the lack of machinery and over reliance on manual labor at every step. I understand the needed equipment hasn't been invented but necessity is the mother of invention.

@dancingcar8974 2 ай бұрын

@@BkNy02 lmao if machines come these guys would be the first one to lose their jobs😂😂

@Pankaj__Solanki 2 ай бұрын

they do not need system, but money to implement higher food safety standards, working and living conditions along with first world wages for the employees.

@marcusm8009 3 ай бұрын

Their use of the byproduct as a fuel source is nice. It might help the shelf life to use gloves.

@TheFanatical1 2 ай бұрын

It probably generates insane amounts of air pollution, net negative for everyone.

@harmanjediwarlord8984 3 ай бұрын

ocra roots and water is not a good thing anymore for clarification because of the heavy use of pesticides and other chemicals, when making tea and use jaggery made from this it spoils it, in Punjab we mostly use Bicarbonate of Soda to clarify it and it has no bad side affects too. :)

@physics77guy 3 ай бұрын

my family used to make it in our village

@markorahoske6931 3 ай бұрын

In South and central America they burn the cane before harvesting. Jaggery (gur) cookies are freaking amazing, especially with my coffee

@sharayutravels 3 ай бұрын

There are many jaggary producers much cleaner and hygienic than these guys. Why you went to the worst.one😂

@Justin-de7xb 3 ай бұрын

El Pueblo est clean à côté d'eux !

@SG003 3 ай бұрын

My ancestors used to make this thing, I don't know how many generations before but they used to make this. How do I know you ask, because my last name is based on the product

@Actor_bad24IK 3 ай бұрын

Now i know where the jaggery i buy in Mombasa comes from

@meldarosika1990 3 ай бұрын

big meal for many people coming home on Eid al-Fitr

@EyesOfByes 3 ай бұрын

I still like *big foody batches*

@mateus_berti 3 ай бұрын

ON THE FLOOR aaahh

@Harihasansingh 3 ай бұрын

Aadab Namashkar Germany ke vloga apke bhai ke channel pr ajao! dhanevad Shukriya

@osuuoeno2068 3 ай бұрын

Get me some of dat goop scoop goop scoop, mix it with da struggle, bubble struggle bubble

@tbrowniscool 3 ай бұрын

Sugar always tastes better when it's been man-handled. Nothing like it

@ashash8026 3 ай бұрын

Cuz they don't wash their hands .

@HardcorePanda 3 ай бұрын

+ they use their hands instead of toilet paper, adds an special layer of flavor.@@ashash8026

@tbrowniscool 3 ай бұрын

@@ashash8026 Of course not its India. Even centuries of British rule and they all they have left is the trains. Morons

@chiluxr250 3 ай бұрын

Sugar was invented in India actually.

@StephenA92 3 ай бұрын

Tastes like shit

@Joyfam777 2 ай бұрын

Please make sure for food and hygiene and safety for others health

@jasonbrohipower4157 3 ай бұрын

Something tells me it would relieve constipation!

@puneetsinghsidhu2808 3 ай бұрын

The best jagger and all natural is produced in punjab

@chetengurung3629 3 ай бұрын

I am never eating Gur again😅

@AkashSingh-uk5ub 3 ай бұрын

If you haven't fallen ill till now,you won't be

@RebuttalRecords 3 ай бұрын

Mick Jaggery!!

@Shibinbasheer007 3 ай бұрын

🔥🍀

@dologongpoloponobonotongpo235 2 ай бұрын

what language do they use?

@GargiSingh-be8kx 2 ай бұрын

Hindi

@ngole96 2 ай бұрын

I have seen so many jaggery production houses and one ting for sure, if it is pure organic jaggery made in the traditional way without any chemicals the jaggery is brown not Golden or Orange like this. In Karnataka, the jaggery making is far cleaner than this and mostly machines are used for all the production.

@tusharhbk 3 ай бұрын

Sugar was invented in India when the world didn`t was hunting animal with stones.

@Clarence_13x 2 ай бұрын

@1:57 the truck driver intentionally swerved to educate the man at the side of the road.

@chrisc475 3 ай бұрын

The high water content makes it attractive to micro organisms, so we dry it for 20 minutes 🤣. Yep, that'll do it.

@Fat_Paws 3 ай бұрын

It actually does. That stuff has shelf life like honey. The video focused on a rustic production process. Modern factories that follow a higher standards are far more common. Contrary to belief, the world outside your bubble isn't living in the middle ages. It's not like the rest of the world discovered fire yesterday lol.

@CatsOfMarrakech 3 ай бұрын

Jaggery some of it is sharp like glass shards

@RangaLovesABeer88 23 сағат бұрын

🍻🍻🍻🍻

@MrPojopojo 3 ай бұрын

how are there not tens of thousands of flies swarming this place, it's pure sugar.

@okaka5398 2 ай бұрын

Heat

@la3044 3 ай бұрын

India‘s nature gives so much. They could be better in handling it by being more clean and having better systems. It‘s sad seeing so much potential but people not using the potential right for example bathing in chemical water because they thing it‘s send by their god. We are also involved in that type of stuff, because we buy cheap things and ruin the environment.

@huskaroar6869 3 ай бұрын

Yeaahh... Goop scoop 😂

@shubhnamdeo2865 3 ай бұрын

That's how jaggery is made...

@abracadabra16234 2 ай бұрын

Average Mom's basement resident seeing the world outside 😂😂😂

@huy1k995 3 ай бұрын

Indian kryptonite: Hygenes and automations.

@DeathMetalDerf 3 ай бұрын

I bet you're just the most fun at parties, aren't you? Why mock people in another country for having different standards than you? It makes you look like an ignorant person.

@tbrowniscool 3 ай бұрын

They don't know these words.

@imacarguy4065 3 ай бұрын

They're getting there chief. Calm down. A lot of stuff is automated and the hygiene is getting better. It's not the best yet, but they've only started property developing in the last decade. East Asia, where I assume you're from, is also not known for their hygiene. How are those meat markets btw?

@feathercat9118 3 ай бұрын

They can't afford it, because of terrible government. If they had a chance, pretty sure they would.

@IAMADARSH1999 3 ай бұрын

American Kryptonite:-WHAT IS A WOMAN ???

@striker7469 3 ай бұрын

Huh?!

@shri1417 2 ай бұрын

Man, so many people concerned about sanitation. This is how humans were living for centuries before the American sanitation standards. Embrace it

@tinkerbella7433 3 ай бұрын

Its also made in Bangladesh 🇧🇩 but we use various syrup not just sugar cane, palm syrup, date syrup and are more pronounced and defined in taste. Its also a bit different process and deep colored.

@khullaasaand 3 ай бұрын

You're deluding yourself. Not only is it harmful what you're eating but also defeats the purpose

@wassuphomies263 2 ай бұрын

exactly in WB too, people prefer the date palm jaggery. It gives the distinct taste in our sweets.

@DimSimSam 3 ай бұрын

I’d like to know how many snakebites occur in the sugarcane fields.

@stormssf8538 2 ай бұрын

Here the jaggery we buy is brown in colour

@marcab3967 2 ай бұрын

Sanitation and Hygiene left India a long time ago. Legend says it hasn't returned yet.

@Pankaj__Solanki 2 ай бұрын

yes! hygiene left India starting from 1757 AD when colonists destroyed local economy to sell manchester goods for huge profit, and in process made these people ancestors not only poor but snatched and destroyed the sense of any pride and dignity in the psyche of the masses. further, glorification and romanticization of poverty by the communists/socialists had played huge role in continuance of the same in 21st century.

@Joyfam777 2 ай бұрын

May be one day

@KurtUnger 3 ай бұрын

I just can’t watch these without being grossed out. Like yes let’s process this food on a muddy floor. Barf

@melodyparra2960 3 ай бұрын

It looks like caramel taffy

@nareshkadaru9510 2 ай бұрын

Please maintain hygiene in manufacturing process

@Joyfam777 2 ай бұрын

It's true

@SednaBoo 2 ай бұрын

They don’t burn the fields to harvest the cane?

@beatrizluciano7743 3 ай бұрын

In Brazil we have a peanut sweet exactly like that, we call it pé de moleque, it means foot of boy 😅

@Beansswtf 3 ай бұрын

Cause all the Indian boys who make it jump all over it with their bare feet

@khushu8127 3 ай бұрын

Nah..💀👍

@vishalvyas941 3 ай бұрын

how many of you got: chet k means beating hard @ 2:55

@user-us8bz7rt7y 3 ай бұрын

@emdee31 I understand your concerns but a majority of people wearing gloves is mostly for placebo. Think about it, you wash your hands and over time they get dirty and sweaty and you wash them again, however, people wearing gloves just keep wearing the same pair many a times. The policies are generally to change gloves after every single order (in fast food industry) and wash your hands before wearing new gloves, but do you really think that people follow this during rush hour? Some places here in India have banned gloves as they make your hands sweaty faster and the climate being warmer leads to more bacterial growth. It's better to just let people use their hands and let them wash them more frequently which most people do. Imagine you make something which is sticky with bare hands, as soon as you're done you would want to wash your hands, even if it is not with soap you'll flush most of the things stuck to your hands. You can read research articles, wearing gloves improperly is far worse than just washing your hands regularly. Also in the case of this particular video, the jaggery balls are made when the jaggery is well over 60 celcius so it's really fine.

@AP_farm_agriculture 3 ай бұрын

Is there anyone like me who used to use sugar cane stalks to make a bich for fighting like Bruce Lee when I was a kid?

@debadityanath4398 3 ай бұрын

I dont think i have been to an Insider Food video in 1 hour, and it was so close(53 min)

@gs8259 3 ай бұрын

This is the most hygienic factory Insider Food could find, in all of India, think about that.

@Universal69man 2 ай бұрын

Very hygienic 😂

@Laughadaffadil 3 ай бұрын

all they have to do is not install the pots into the damn floor 😩 theres so much dirt and grime from them just walking around wth

@masaharumorimoto4761 3 ай бұрын

The dude feeding the fire looked so dry, get that man a pepsi!

@sainiamarjeet 3 ай бұрын

5:20 wrong info tht jaggery is perishable rather it can be kept for over years like honey if the moisture is less than 10% and as per Indian Govt Quality Standards jaggery should not have more than 7% moisture

@arvinthemindfreak 3 ай бұрын

Humidity is not high in these region

@magpie92766 3 ай бұрын

The average humidity in Uttarakhand is 61%. In Aug is 86%. Today it's 68%. I live in Mobile, we have a subtropical climate here, our average humidity is 85.7%. It's like walking around with a wet blanket over you. Over 60% is high humidity, so yeah, Uttarakhand has high humidity.

@arvinthemindfreak 3 ай бұрын

@@magpie92766 thanks for reply...........but I live in Maharashtra state of India where sugarcane and jaggery production is top...........and here humidity is less only coastal region has high humidity. So in less humidity areas also people grow sugarcane and are among top producer in country

@AsokaTw-mz3lr 3 ай бұрын

@@magpie92766 in sri lanka it goes up to 90%.

@magpie92766 3 ай бұрын

@@AsokaTw-mz3lr I'm not surprised, we do too. Cities w humidity averages in the high 80's don't have far to go to get to 90% on a good day. One of the problems with living in sub-tropical & tropical areas. Here many people who come South to visit are surprised at how hot & humid our area is.

@magpie92766 3 ай бұрын

@@arvinthemindfreak Here in the US our sugar cane is grown in the more humid states. We produce over 32.9 million net tons, slightly less than India's 33.7 million tons. Looking online I was surprised to see that Brazil grows over 677 million tons. That is a serious amount of sugarcane. Does jaggery taste similar to dark brown sugar or molasses?

@kindnessalwayswins 3 ай бұрын

Jaggery is good for the health, says the man without any teeth. 😂

@Subbunext-pc6cv 3 ай бұрын

I am from India... why people don't maintain clean... :( the shop person maintained well clean. The person who is making needs to learn to keep clean...

@AsokaTw-mz3lr 3 ай бұрын

not really. shop people don't maintain the hygiene too. this is why I never eat or drink from any street vendors, but from proper shops even though they are expensive.

@jahongirummatov9215 2 ай бұрын

Aww man what a hell is that 😂

@umadbra 2 ай бұрын

At least they are wearing shoes.

@ericaschannel2599 3 ай бұрын

Sanitation in these places is just down right criminal 😅

@toxichammertoe8696 3 ай бұрын

You don't get it. An ashy foot with figure funk is the secret ingredient

@ango586 3 ай бұрын

Cleaner than ass licked dogs handling in homes

@batacumba 3 ай бұрын

That’s part of why the FDA allows for a certain amount of foreign material (up to 10% 🤢) including bugs and sht to be included in food. A lot of the places where our food products are grown do not have the infrastructure to have sophisticated processing facilities or just by the nature of the processing, certain ‘inclusions’ will be introduced. That’s why you’re not supposed to eat raw cookie dough or flour. Not just because of the eggs but because birds inevitably sht in the wheat fields and there’s not really a way to effectively eliminate the chances of certain contamination unless you bake it. I agree it looks pretty sus but if you think about stuff like chocolate, cocoa beans are usually just laid out to dry in the sun. A certain number of critters are bound to get in there. It’s gross but after processing is ultimately harmless to us. I just try not to think about it too much or I’ll just become neurotic about it. 😂

@TheMinzer 3 ай бұрын

Pork eating people talking about sanitization 🤔🤔😃🤣

@PerceptionVsReality333 3 ай бұрын

@@toxichammertoe8696 Cheesey toe-jam is the secret ingredient 😂

@MrMucera 3 ай бұрын

"How modern slaves work to make in a year what some make in an hour or less."

@pricelessmakoa4482 3 ай бұрын

One of the beautiful things I can take away from this culture is atleast the factory owner knew how to work actual process’ in his factory. I work in an automobile factory and it would be hilarious to see some of the office workers do some of the process’

@lucaskp16 3 ай бұрын

most automobile factories are public traded gigant companies. where most owners own a very small part of it. and in case you mean the CEO or other c suit people. ofc they dont need to know how to make a car. that is why they hire engineers to design them and workers to make them. now if you go to the origin years of each of those companies ofc you can bet you ass the founders knew how to make a car.

@pricelessmakoa4482 3 ай бұрын

@@lucaskp16 oh wow thanks for stating the obvious. Had no idea about any of that🤣🔥🔥

@Richard-kl8wr 3 ай бұрын

Countryside druglab have better hygiene standards Omg

@jimbobbob9063 3 ай бұрын

No foods hygiene standers

@Nightwing01010 3 ай бұрын

Very sanitary.....

@inlangford 3 ай бұрын

No thx..

@samsiryani9023 3 ай бұрын

Sorry to say that it’s crazy this place make anything for consumption let alone for human consumption, I guess dirty conditions and dirty environment make for a better product lol.

@jamesbluntjamesblun1 3 ай бұрын

Welcome to the diarrhea capital of the world

@RomanianRailfanProductions 3 ай бұрын

do a romania vs us or uk mcdonald food wars

@reddyuta 3 ай бұрын

sugarcane was first cultivated in india.

@Chrisosch 3 ай бұрын

Jaggery is good for health - old jaggery factory owner

@greyson042290 3 ай бұрын

these workers had EXPENSIVE shoes during their work.... but i saw other videos these workers are working without it and wearing pants at groin level🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

@greyson042290 3 ай бұрын

@@RubiaStorm i think you didn't catch up... that worker was asked to wear 'new' shoes by the crew for hygiene purpose... but on regular days of work they are working bare feet

@JH-lz4dh 3 ай бұрын

@@greyson042290exactly 😩

@yeasir_arafat 3 ай бұрын

What accent is that 🤔

@maestoso47 3 ай бұрын

Still better than the hfcs in every processed food item in the USA.

@ShovanBiswas-yx7jp 3 ай бұрын

Palm jaggery is best

@cavineowaka6749 3 ай бұрын

First time I'm hearing about it

@ShovanBiswas-yx7jp 3 ай бұрын

@@cavineowaka6749 it's made from sap of the date palm

@cavineowaka6749 3 ай бұрын

It sounds delicious, I hope to try it out

@adnankarimsampd3504 3 ай бұрын

This is how traditionally jaggery is made from age's in this region. Though it looks dirty but it doesn't uses any chemicals. Bristish came in, they disdain it calling it unhygienic and built sugar mills which uses chemicals to make white sugar. Now we all are fighting against white sugar

@simonphoenix3789 3 ай бұрын

yeah I'd rather have the chemicals than whatever diseases are being spread around here. I mean the chemicals used in making sugar are pretty well known, and none of them are dangerous. Getting chlorea because some guy stepped in feces before coming to work and stepping where they make the jaggery... that sounds far worse.

@Matej998 3 ай бұрын

First

@DBELLTREE 3 ай бұрын

What about the rats and the snakes that eat the rats? Cobras? This seems like it could be really dangerous?

@user-yj5vn9hs3u 3 ай бұрын

everything was clean until the last process 🤣

@igorsiuda8108 3 ай бұрын

Ladoos, in this case, balls?

@roku_nine 3 ай бұрын

Food poisoning factory. 😂

@pjacobsen1000 3 ай бұрын

This industry seems ripe for mechanization. I'm sure that will come over the next 10 years.

@Richdadful 3 ай бұрын

Yes actually jaggery got abandoned by masses and only village people used it by early 2000s since it was seen as orthodox and eaten by poor people. So the demand just died out and only remote villages used to make it. Its production halted. This must be one of the remote factories which survived the whole jaggery bycott. But now due to the whole organic moment and Jaggery being much better for diabetic patient than sugar. Its again started getting popular and now its actually costlier than sugar. Which was not the case earlier. So probably we will see factories for the same soon.

@pjacobsen1000 3 ай бұрын

@@Richdadful And I imagine it has a unique taste, richer and deeper flavor than regular, white sugar.

@blenderguy3250 3 ай бұрын

India... ☕

@roberttodorov2154 3 ай бұрын

with proper english sb could understand what she is talking about

@NoSkillsNoFun 2 ай бұрын

The beginning is already frustrating. Some farmworker harvests up to 6 tons of sugar cane, gets paid 5$ while the mill will pay 300$ for these 6 tons. Ya'll need workers unions.

@TheBic4 3 ай бұрын

Guaranteed food poisoning right here. Delhi belly ain’t a joke

@abinodattil6422 3 ай бұрын

I know sanitation looks like shit, but in my experience regional doctors suggest jaggery vs sugar even for babies, due to nutrition and other factors, processed sugar no one recommends, even in my family we are slowly removing processed sugar, it really speaks volumes about modern food marketing

@chuck32504 3 ай бұрын

Sounds interesting! Next time I am in the market to contract Botulism I will look for this product.

@LastBastion 3 ай бұрын

that place is nasty

@user-sf3dj9is8h 3 ай бұрын

Very primitive compared to southern Indian jaggery bhattis, you dont step into the pan with or without shoes.

@TheBuckbennyrides 2 ай бұрын

I would rather eat a steak off my toilet. Why is everything done around their feet? Lol.

@SapphireTvYt 3 ай бұрын

People who eat pesticides produces are saying this is bio hazard. Being "clean " and looks "clean" is not same, but what do you know, probably eating mac donalds fries, fried in plam oil. Btw search about potato used in macD fries.😂