Different types of molasses are: integral or unclarified molasses, high-test molasses, A molasses, B molasses, C (final) molasses and syrup-off.
Sugarcane is a good source of iron, containing around 0.7% of iron by weight in clarified sugarcane juice. Bioavailability of iron available in molasses is around 85% of the total iron and can provide around 6.2 mg of iron/100 gm of molasses.
Molasses is a multipurpose waste used in the production of glycerine, alcohol, glutamic acid, betaine, distillation gases, aconitic acid, stock feed, and natural sweetener in food. Molasses is used basically as source of energy; it is free of fat and fiber with a low nitrogen content. It is allowing to be a food supplement in the diets of animals. Molasses also can completely replace cereals in a beef feedlot operation.
Molasses has been used as raw material for the production of alcohol, and biochemicals, e.g., monosodium glutamate by fermentation, for the production of yeast and in livestock and poultry feeds.
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