Enhanced TDS
Knowde-enriched technical product data sheet
Identification & Functionality
- Ingredient Name
- Animal Feed & Nutrition Functions
- Ingredients
- Molasses
- Technologies
- Product Families
Features & Benefits
- Labeling Claims
- Animal Feed & Nutrition Features
- Molasses as a basic raw material for fermentation
Because molasses contains not only sugar and other carbohydrates, but also high proportions of crude protein and minerals, it has long been used as a raw material for the fermentation of yeast, alcohol and acids. Valuable amino acids can also be extracted from molasses, why it is also used in the production of pharmaceuticals.
Applications & Uses
- Markets
- Applications
- Animal Species
- Molasses – an important feed component
The sweet taste, high energy and material content, along with its excellent properties as a binding and pressing additive, make molasses an important raw material for the production of concentrated animal feed and mineral feed. Molasses is beneficial not just because of its taste, but also because of its outstanding digestibility. Molasses is a very quickly fermentable energy source for the microorganisms in the rumens of cattle. It also has a positive effect on the protein content of the milk.
Nutrient and mineral content of the molasses g/kg Dry Matter Raw ash 105 Raw protein 136 Raw Fat 2 Raw fiber 0 N-free extracts 757 Total sugar 629