{"id":574,"date":"2020-08-22T12:43:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T12:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nordzucker.com\/en\/?page_id=574"},"modified":"2025-04-14T14:37:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T12:37:54","slug":"molasses-thick-juice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nordzucker.com\/en\/sugar-expertise-products\/substrates-for-fermentation\/molasses-thick-juice\/","title":{"rendered":"Molasses and Thick juice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Basic raw material for fermentation of yeast, alcohol and pharmaceuticals<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"py-4 text-xl leading-8\">\n\tDuring the sugar-making process, juice extracted from sugar beets is evaporated until the sugars crystallise and are recovered via centrifugation. The thick and syrupy left over after the last crystallisation is referred to as molasses. <\/div>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Molasses<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Because molasses not only contains sugar and other carbohydrates, but also high proportions of amino acids, other nitrogen components, minerals and vitamins, it is also the raw material for a large number of other products. Molasses has long been used as a raw material for the fermentation of yeast, alcohol and acids. Valuable amino acids and nutrient components can be extracted from molasses, and it is also used in the production of pharmaceuticals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Molasses as an important component of animal feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nordzucker.com\/en\/sugar-expertise-products\/animal-feed\/molasses\/\">read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><th>Nutrient and mineral content of the molasses<\/th><th><\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td><\/td><td>g\/kg Dry Matter<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Raw ash<\/td><td>105<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Raw protein<\/td><td>136<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Raw fat<\/td><td>2<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Raw fibre<\/td><td>0<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>N-free extracts<\/td><td>757<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Total sugar<\/td><td>629<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thick juice<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Thick juice is characterised by a high content of fermentable sugar along with some of the valuable components typically found in molasses such as minerals, vitamins and amino acids, enhancing many fermentation yields in various fermentation processes. Concentration of these non-sugars is much lower in thick juice than in molasses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Molasses are the thick and syrup-like result after the final crystallisation during the sugar-making process. Discover more about its uses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8526,"parent":387,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"page_category":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nordzucker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nordzucker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nordzucker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nordzucker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nordzucker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.nordzucker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8527,"href":"https:\/\/www.nordzucker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/574\/revisions\/8527"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nordzucker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nordzucker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nordzucker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"page_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nordzucker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/page_category?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}