Molasses is a viscous product resulting from refining sugarcane or sugar beets into sugar. Molasses varies by amount of sugar, method of extraction, and age of plant. Sugarcane molasses is primarily used for sweetening and flavoring foods in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere. Sugar beet molasses is foul-smelling and unpalatable, so it is mostly used as an animal feed additive in Europe and Russia, where it is chiefly produced. Molasses is a defining component of fine commercial brown sugar.
Brix % 85.0-88.0, Polarization % 46.0 - 61.0 , Purity % 52.0- 58.0, Sucrose % 45.0 - 48.0 , Reducers %12.0 -15.0 , Total Sugar % 57.0- 63.0 , Ashes % 9.0 - 15.0
Molasses can be used:
As the principal ingredient in the distillation of rum
In dark rye breads or other whole grain breads
In some cookies and pies
In gingerbread (particularly in the Americas)
In barbecue sauces
In beer styles such as stouts and porters
To stabilize emulsification of home-made vinaigrette
To reconstitute brown sugar by combining it with white sugar
As a humectant in jerky processing
As a source for yeast production
