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Jaggery syrup is an adulterant of
(a)Sweet
(b) Ice-cream
(c)Honey
(d) None of the above

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Hint: An adulterant is a substance such as food, cosmetic, pharmaceutical, or other chemicals that compromises the effectiveness of the substance. It is present normally in any declared contents of the substance but is not legally allowed

Complete answer:
Jaggery syrup is an adulterant of honey. Honey can be adulterated with inexpensive sweeteners by making syrup out of it. Water is the major constituent of honey. It makes the flow behavior an important parameter for quality determination. The jaggery syrup is studied using a rotational rheometer with parallel plate geometry. The viscosity increases with an increase in the concentration of adulteration and can vary from 2.48 to 4.80 Pa. It is found that adulteration decreases the shelf life of honey and reality can be an important parameter to determine adulteration of honey. Honey is a natural sweet substance that is produced by the honeybees that are produced from the nectar of plants or secretion of plants and excretion of plant-sucking insects. Any has medicinal remedy from ancient times and is antibacterial and antiviral.

Additional Information: Sweet: It is a basic taste that is most commonly perceived when we eat foods which are rich in sugars. Its taste is pleasurable if taken in limited quantities. Sugars like sucrose and other chemical compounds which include aldehydes, ketones and sugar alcohols. Sweetness can be affected by the color of food which means more red color to a drink increases its perceived sweetness. Dark color solutions rated higher than the lighter ones fall's sucrose concentration. Some odours smell sweet and confuse weather to taste or to be smelled.
Ice-cream: Ice creams are the sweetened Frozen food that is eaten as a snack or a dessert. Its constituents are water milk, fat, milk protein, sugar and air. Ice Cream was quite laborious while making and was cut from lakes and ponds during the winter and stored in the holes of ground. Some farmers and plantation owners cut and stored ice in the summer for use. Ice cream is handmade in a large bowl placed inside a tab which is filled with Ice and salt and this process is known as the pot freezer method.
So, the correct answer is 'honey'.

Note: An architect invented a refrigeration technique that let Italians eat ice cream at any time in 1565. Ice Cream was first invented in China in the late 17th century. The former President of America, George Washington spent 200 USD on ice cream in 1790. The 50% of the volume of ice cream is air by which the dessert achieves its light texture.