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Molasses
Molasses is a dark, sweet and thickly syrupy sugar byproduct. Molasses vary in color and sweetness, depending on the type and amount of sugar used during its processing.
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What minerals are in molasses?
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The juice of the sugar cane where the sugar is, the fibers of the sugar cane where the juice is, the roots, and the leaves.
Does molasses help arthritis?
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A combination of blackstrap molasses, apple cider vinegar & honey reversed my dad's osteoarthritis over a few months. Amazing to see the bones in his hands return to normal.
He got a "treating arthritis" book from Amazon that detailed the treatment/cure. Don't think molasses alone would be enough to reverse arthritis though.
Why it is more difficult to blow bubbles onto a glass of molasses than into a glass of water?
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What is meant by blackstrap molasses in Tamil?
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blackstrap mollasus-vellabagu from sugarcane
What is a sentence for molasses?
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When we eat hot dogs and beans, my mother will add molasses to the beans to make them taste better.
Is molasses good for your iron?
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Sorry - it's the wrong sort of iron in order for it to be absorbed effectively by the body (also known as non-haem iron). The best form of iron that the body absorbs well is the blood-related iron (or haem iron) such as that found in red meat.
What does molasses do for the body?
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Molasses is high in sugar. Blackstrap molasses actually has many benefits for your body. one tablespoon of blackstrap molasses contains between 13-18% of our body's recommended daily allowance (RDA) doses of magnesium, iron, copper, and calcium. Calcium is important for bones and teeth, iron is needed to carry oxygen to the blood cells, magnesium keeps the heart healthy, and copper helps with enzymatic reactions, cell growth, connective tissues, eyes, hair, and aging. It also contains 10% of our RDA of potassium, 5% of our RDA of vitamin B6, and 3.5% of our RDA of selenium. These are all important trace minerals that work together to maintain the body's natural processes. Another benefit of blackstrap molasses is that it is a natural laxative.
Can you substitute maple syrup for molasses in a cookie recipe?
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sunstition for brown sugar using granulated sugar and pancake syrup
Do you need molasses to make gingerbread?
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Yes very. It is the main ingredient that gives the cookies their flavor.
Is molasses healthy?
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Molasses is better for you than table sugar or brown sugar, as far as sweeteners go. Many people believe it has positive health benefits, and it's also a wonderfully flavorful way to sweeten some cookie recipies. Of course, everything in moderation. If you are eating large quantities of any sweetener on a regular basis it of course will not be good for your teeth or stomach, but a small amount of molasses on a regular basis is just fine.
Considering that today's society consumes soft drinks as thirst quenchers, I'd be more worried about the effects of a can of Coca-Cola than a bit of molasses :)
Why does molasses remove rust?
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This answer only refers to sugarcane molasses. Molasses from sugar beets reportedly tastes so foul to humans that it is only used as an additive to animal feed and as a feedstock for ethanol production. Other types of "molasses" are made from various fruits and vegetables.
It makes sense that sugarcane molasses removes rust, which is Fe3O4. Thus, the iron in rust is in the +3 oxidation state, also denoted as iron(III) or Fe(III).
Rust is rather difficult to dissolve because the primary iron oxides hematite and magnetite have zero solubility in water practically speaking, and many of the common iron(III) salts are practically insoluble in water. On the other hand, iron(II) salts (not oxides) tend to be very soluble in water, and chelated iron(III), iron(II/III), and especially iron(II) complexes are usually extremely water soluble, but beware, the solubility of complexed iron may fall precipitously at low and high pH values.
There are three reasons that most grades of sugarcane molasses will usually dissolve rust: 1) Molasses contains a significant amount of copper(II), and Cu(II) will reduce Fe(III) to Fe(II) leaving elemental copper behind as particulate matter of very small size. 2) Molasses contains a significant amount of glucose, which is a reducing sugar that can reduce iron(III) to iron(II), giving the iron a greater propensity toward water solubility. On the average, only about 67% of sugar in sugarcane is sucrose. Virtually all the sugar in sugar beets is sucrose. 3) The final, but most important, reason that molasses dissolves rust and other iron oxides is the chelating agents it contains. The noun "chelant" comes from the Latin word "chele" which means claw. Chelating agents are organic molecules that contain at least two atoms that chemically bind to metals as if the metal atom or ion were being grabbed by a claw; the binding sites are by necessity always in close proximity to one another, and that aids in keeping the metal more tightly bound.
The major amino acid chelating agents in molasses are aspartic acid (tridentate - contains three binding sites), glutamic acid (tridentate), alanine (bidentate), and about two or more percent of valine (bidentate), serine (bi- or tridentate), and glycine (bidentate). Non-amino acid chelants in molasses are the very strong chelants citric acid (tridentate) and malic acid (tri- or bidentate), and other good chelants such as lactate and polyols.
The most common bonding atoms in chelants are nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, phosphorus, and in certain instances, carbon. Chelants, or chelating agents, bind the strongest to transition metals since those metals possess partially filled d orbitals that are very important in forming bonds to the atoms mentioned above. The strongest ligands, i.e., the ions or molecules bound to the metal, are capable of forming chemical bonds between one of their empty d orbitals and a filled d orbital on the metal. This is in addition to a sigma bond between a ligand's lone electron pair (Every binding atom has at least one lone pair) and possibly even another pi bond between empty, half-filled, or filled p orbital on a ligand atom and a p or d orbital on the metal.
Is there molasses in ketchup?
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The typical ingredients in your common every day ketchup (also called catsup) are tomatoes, salt, sugar, vinegar, cloves, allspice, and cinnamon maybe onion powder. Other vegetables could be also added such as onions and celery. Molasses would be more viable for say a barbecue sauce.
What would you do to make it easier to pour and measure the molasses?
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I need to know the limitations (what can you and what can you not do). The simplest answer, heat it up. To do this use a double boiler (one pan with nothing but boiling water, and in that is another pan with this molasses. You're going to have to keep stirring it though. If that is unacceptable then heat it up, get it very thin so you can stir it, and add a trace of some kind of acid, like a touch of lemon juice, or better yet, vitamin C, say 3-5 drops or one ground up tablet, in say a quart of molasses. Keep stirring it for say 15-30 minutes. My hope is that the sugar in the molasses is some kind of disaccharides, or even small polysaccharides, and the acid, along with the water present, will hydrolyses these more complex sugars down to monosaccharides, like fructose and glucose, the aqueous solutions of which are fairly fluid. But, (!) at this point you don't really have molasses any more. However trust me; it will still be very sweet, probably sweeter than the molasses itself. Hope that helps.
Is molasses a laxative?
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Yes, in certain doses and depending on your sensitivity. If you have one BM a day then you will need three or more tablespoons to produce a laxative effect. If your BMs are less frequent then you are definitely constipated and will need anywhere from a quarter cup (four tbls) to a third cup taken over a period of one hour or less with about twenty four oz of water. Always drink water if taking a laxative. Warm water works best.
Why was molasses so important to the colonists?
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Molasses was important mainly because it was used to make rum.
