Background Info
Blackstrap molasses comes from a third boiling in the sugar cane process. It is very thick and dark and somewhat bitter. Health food followers describe all sorts of benefits to a diet rich in blackstrap molasses.
Organic Blackstrap molasses has a rich, full-bodied flavour that adds natural colour to food. It is the end product, or by-product, of the production of sugar and contains vitamins, minerals and trace elements naturally found in the sugar cane plant and is a good source of iron, vitamin B6, potassium, calcium and magnesium. Because it is an end product - all the ingredients, residues and toxins in the plant can be concentrated in the molasses. For this reason it is important to purchase organis molasses.
Molasses is an excellent chelating agent. An object with iron rust placed for two weeks in a mixture of one part molasses to nine parts water will lose its rust due to the chelating action of the molasses.
Note: There are three major types of sugar cane molasses: unsulphured, sulphured and blackstrap. There are also three major grades of cane molasses: first molasses, second molasses and blackstrap molasses.
Benefits
Blackstrap molasses is a very good source of calcium (in good combination with Manganese) - one of the most important minerals in the body involved in a variety of physiological activities essential to life. Black molasses are rish in iron and copper. Copper, an essential component of many enzymes, plays a role in a wide rance of physiological processes inclusing iron utilization, elimination of free radicals, development of bone and connective of tissue. It also helps in the production of the skin and hair pigment - Melanin.
References
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