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What Is Molasses?
The highest grade, pure molasses - like Grandma's - is made from 100% pure, natural sugarcane juices, clarified, reduced, and blended to get just the right color and consistency. But there's difference in grades of molasses.
The purest molasses is pure cane juice. If a manufacturer wants sugar, the cane juice will be processed. The result is a raw sugar and low purity molasses. But Grandma's Original Molasses (Gold Label) is the original, high purity, unprocessed cane juice without any sugar extraction. In manufacturing raw sugar, after the cane has been harvested and mashed, the raw juices are boiled to extract sugar. To produce table sugar, the manufacturer will further process raw sugar into refined sugar. The remaining syrup - after the sugar has been crystallized - is called first molasses. Grandma's Robust Molasses (Green Label) is a blend of first molasses. First molasses, a thick brown syrup, is then thinned with water and re-boiled so that more raw sugar can be extracted.
The leftover syrup from the second boiling is second molasses, and so on. The more boiling you have, the less sweet molasses becomes until you get down to three or more boilings. By this time, the molasses known as "blackstrap" has almost no sweetness, but the highest nutritional value.
Grandma's Original Molasses is pure, concentrated cane juice, and retains its natural sugar content. It's sweet, light and never bitter. Grandma's Molasses is a rich, amber-color that blends beautifully with other foods and enhances the natural flavors of the ingredients with which it is mixed.
 Grandma's Original:
- Highest grade, pure molasses available
- 100% pure, natural sugarcane juices, clarified, reduced, and blended to get just the right color and consistency (no sugar removed)
- Slightly sweeter and lighter in color
- Unsulphured – contains no additives
- Fat-free
 Kosher Certified - Available in 12oz. and 24oz. jars as well as 1 gallon and 5 gallon foodservice jugs
The delicate flavor and golden color of Grandma’s Original Molasses are perfect for general cooking purpose
 Grandma's Robust:
- A blend of “first molasses,” the remaining syrup once the product is refined to produce table sugar
- A less sweet product than Original
- Hardier flavored product in a darker, richer color
- Higher iron content than light molasses
- Unsulphured – contains no additives
- Fat-free
- Kosher Certified
- Available in 12oz. jars
The full tangy, tangy flavor and deep color of Grandma's Robust Molasses are excellent for all cooking in which many spices are present (i.e. gingerbread)
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