Organic Organic Times Organic Unsulphered Blackstrap Molasses is a thick, dark syrup left after the extraction of sugar from sugar cane. The roots of the sugar cane run a long way into the soil, and have received a broad spectrum of minerals and trace elements.
The process of Organic Times Organic Molasses is certified organic ensuring a fresh delicious taste without any harmful additives, pesticides or herbicides. The product is also unsulphured, which means that no allergic chemicals have been used in processing. Molasses has a bitter-sweet flavour, and is a popular health food due to iron, copper, potassium and magnesium content. An easy way to improve your diet is to replace refined sugars with molasses. It can be used in baking, as a delicious topping or as a recipe ingredient. The most important benefit of molasses is its high mineral content.
Most sweeteners are white because they've been stripped of all their natural goodness. Organic Times Molasses is dark in colour because it contains the concentrated goodness of the earth in which the sugar cane is grown.
Organic Blackstrap Molasses from sugar cane
Organic Unsulphered Molasses can be used as a delicious topping, or a recipe ingredient.
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Organic Blackstrap Molasses contains only unsulphured blackstrap molasses from sugar cane. Blackstrap molasses is the dark syrup left after the later stages of cane sugar processing, and it naturally provides minerals such as iron, potassium, magnesium and calcium. That is why it is often used as a pantry sweetener with a bit more nutritional value than plain refined sugar.
In everyday use, Organic Blackstrap Molasses is usually chosen when you want a richer, less sweet flavour for baking, sauces, marinades or stirred into porridge. The mineral content is one reason blackstrap molasses is often used in plant-based diets, but it is still a sweetener, so the main thing to expect is flavour plus some naturally occurring minerals.
What is blackstrap molasses in Organic Blackstrap Molasses?
It is a concentrated syrup made from sugar cane. Because it comes from the later stage of processing, it has a darker colour, a stronger taste and a higher natural mineral content than lighter molasses.
What is Organic Blackstrap Molasses commonly used for?
Most people use it in baking, gingerbread, breads, sauces and marinades, or add a small amount to hot drinks, oats or smoothies. It gives food a deep, bittersweet flavour as well as natural sweetness.
Why do some people buy Organic Blackstrap Molasses instead of regular sweeteners?
Usually because they want the distinctive taste and the naturally occurring minerals that come with blackstrap molasses. It is still a sweetener, but it does offer more than sweetness alone.