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Fermentation

Molasses is used as a microbiological energy source in a wide range of fermentation processes.

It is used to grow yeasts, moulds and bacteria which transform sugars into alcohol, yeast, citric acid and the food additives monosodium glutamate and lysine.

Molasses is easy to incorporate into fermentation processes and represents a stable and predictable substrate to store and handle.

It is regularly the most cost-effective of the main energy sources available for these industries.

A cost-effective micro-biological energy source

used in a wide range of fermentation processes

Bakers and brewers yeast

In the commercial production of yeast, molasses is used as the primary carbohydrate source for the successful harvesting of yeast cells. Cane molasses has significant biotin content, which bakers’ and brewers’ yeasts need for growth; synthetic biotin must be added where beet molasses is used.

Molasses is used in a wide range of fermentation processes to grow yeasts, moulds and bacteria that transform sugars into alcohol, yeast, citric acid and the food additives monosodium glutamate and lysine.

Citric acid

Large amounts of citric acid for use in soft drinks and pharmaceuticals are produced from moulds adapted to utilise cane and beet molasses as their energy source.

Molasses is easy to incorporate into fermentation processes and represents a stable and predictable substrate to store and handle.

Alcohol

Cane Molasses contains B vitamins and biotin, which helps the fermentation processes that produce ethanol for use in alcoholic drinks, cosmetics and solvents.

MSG and Lysine

Molasses is an ideal energy source for the process involved in producing monosodium glutamate and lysine amino acids, which are used in both human and livestock food processing.

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