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According to The Cook’s Thesaurus, an online cooking encyclopedia, molasses is the brownish-black, thick, syrupy liquid left behind after granulated sugar is extracted from sugar cane.

If you don’t have much experience with molasses, know that it comes in a few varieties: light molasses (or baking molasses) is the sweetest, while blackstrap molasses is the most robust.

In addition, it provides 18 amino acids (1). It has 2–3.5 times as much iron as light and dark molasses, which are produced after the first and second boiling of molasses, respectively (4).