Health Benefits Of Molasses

The only major difference between commercial brown and white sugar except for the color is that brown sugar has molasses in it. Molasses are a byproduct of the refining process. They remove it from white sugar, and leave it in the brown sugar.

Regarding blackstrap molasses, it’s the healthiest of all sugar cane products. It is made by mashing sugar cane to release juice, and boiled to create syrup. The second boiling is what creates molasses. After it’s boiled for the third time, it’s ready for usage. This is widely known as blackstrap molasses and it has least sugar of all sugar cane products.

Various ways in which molasses aids to our health:

• Suitable for diabetics — everyone with diabetes knows how hard it is to have a sweet tooth but aren’t able to eat everything you want. Even though molasses is derived from sugar cane and has as many carbs as any other sugar, the body digests it more slowly, which helps to stabilize blood sugar levels.
• Improves blood quality — when it comes to anemia and other blood deficiencies caused by a lack of iron, molasses comes in handy. Five tablespoons of blackstrap molasses has around 95% of the daily recommended allowance of iron. You can add it to any recipe you want, but also to a glass of warm water.
• Good source of potassium — it is widely known that banana is among the best sources of potassium, but blackstrap molasses comes right behind the yellow fruit. A tablespoon of molasses contains almost 300ml of potassium and adds a quick boost to our bodies. It can lower blood pressure very fast. It also relaxes muscles and prevents muscle cramps.

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• Improves bone health — Even though calcium is king when it comes to bone health, magnesium also plays an important role. Being rich in both, magnesium and calcium, molasses is a great solution to prevent osteoporosis. Five spoons of molasses counts as 50% of daily allowance of calcium, 35% of magnesium, and 95% of iron. Keeping your magnesium levels in order prevents osteoporosis and asthma, among other diseases that can affect our bodies.

You can mix molasses with water, your favorite fruit juice, smoothies, or pop it to sweeten your stir-fry. It’s completely optional. Many people use it to make gingerbread, or any of their baking. Molasses has a strong flavor and it would be hard to add two or more tablespoons to only one drink, but if you’re making a pitcher of some type of tea or other beverage, it would be a great choice.

Even though brown sugar does not aid health in any way (at least not according to science so far), put a tablespoon of molasses here and there and you’ll see changes in your health and energy levels soon enough.