The rum industry is currently worth USD 16 billion, with production concentrated in tropical countries of the Caribbean and Asia-Pacific regions. primary feedstock for sugar cane molasses, a by-product refineries. main variables known to affect quality include composition length fermentation, type barrels time used aging rum. goal this review provide an overview impact these on quality, highlig...

Sugarcane molasses is a widely used animal feed by-product, but is concentrated in S (approximately 1%, DM basis) and has been shown to reduce the Cu status of cattle. Dietary S may also antagonize Se; therefore, two 90-d studies were conducted with forage-fed, yearling steers (12 pens; 2 steers/pen for each study) to investigate the impact of molasses supplementation on measures of Se status. ...

Lipid extract and fatty acid composition of cane molasses and yeasts (Saccharomyces cerevisiae M-300A and Saccharomyces uvarum IZ-1904) grown in molasses medium were determined. In molasses, linoleic acid was found in higher levels (around 42%) and was followed by palmitic, oleic and linolenic acids. The lipid extract varied from 1.02 to 3.13 gkg. In yeasts, the level of lipid extract varied fr...

The strain Klebsiella sp. K18 produces the enzyme glucosyltransferase and catalyses the conversion of sucrose to palatinose, an alternative sugar that presents low cariogenicity. Response Surface Methodology was successfully employed to determine the optimal concentration of culture medium components. Maximum glucosyltransferase production (21.78 U mL(-1)) was achieved using the optimized mediu...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of replacing corn grain for sugar cane molasses (MO) or glucose syrup (GS) in the starter concentrate on performance and metabolism of dairy calves. Thirty-six individually housed Holstein male calves were blocked according to weight and date of birth and assigned to one of the starter feed treatments, during an 8 week study: i) starter containin...

The fertility status of the soil and the standard of fertiliser management can have an important effect on the chemical composition and quality of cane juice. Both nutrient deficiency and nutrient excess can result in below optimum sucrose contents. Excessive potassium uptake may promote cane lodging and high potassium levels in juice can also influence the exhaustibility of final molasses, the...

A quality control programme for the GC analysis of sugars in cane molasses is described. Multi-level standard calibration reduces systematic bias. Repeatability and target values for check molasses samples are used as the control parameters to evaluate day to day precision and accuracy.

The average daily gain, over a 100-day feeding period, of Kenana X Friesian bulls on a ration containing 25% cane molasses (A), 50% cane molasses (B) or 45% sorghum grain (C) was 0.991, 0.698 and 1.351 kg respectively. Feed conversion ratio and the cost of a kilo gram of body gain were higher on group B followed by group A and C in descending order. The molasses fed groups lost some animals dur...

A relationship between true purity, reducing sugar and ash was developed for South African molasses. This relationship was established by equilibrating molasses with sucrose at 40°C and a viscosity of approximately 1 000 poises. The formula proposed is p = 51,02 10,89 ' / a in which p = true purity r = reducing sugars a = sulphated ash Introduction Many investigations have been carried out atte...