Molasses is a viscous byproduct, principally obtained from the refining of sugarcane or sugar beet juice into sugar. Molasses varies in the amount of sugar, the method of extraction and age of the plant. Sugarcane molasses is usually used to sweeten and flavour foods. Molasses is a major constituent of fine commercial brown sugar.
Blackstrap molasses
A bottle of molasses
Pomegranate molasses
A sugar refinery is a refinery which processes raw sugar from cane or sugar extracted from beets into white refined sugar.
The Domino sugar refinery in Arabi, Louisiana, USA
The same in operation
Sugar refinery in Nantes, Atlantic coast of France
Nyhavn 11 in Copenhagen was a traditional sugar refinery