Muscovado vs. Molasses

Muscovadonoun

An unrefined brown sugar with a strong flavour of molasses.

Muscovadoadjective

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, unrefined or raw sugar, obtained from the juice of the sugar cane by evaporating and draining off the molasses. Muscovado sugar contains impurities which render it dark colored and moist.

Muscovadonoun

Unrefined or raw sugar.

Muscovado

Muscovado, is a type of partially refined to unrefined sugar with a strong molasses content and flavour, and dark brown in colour. It is technically considered either a non-centrifugal cane sugar or a centrifuged, partially refined sugar according to the process used by the manufacturer.

Molassesnoun

A thick brownish syrup produced in the refining of raw sugar.

Molassesnoun

The thick, brown or dark colored, viscid, uncrystallizable sirup which drains from sugar, in the process of manufacture; any thick, viscid, sweet sirup made from vegetable juice or sap, as of the sorghum or maple. See Treacle.

Molassesnoun

thick dark syrup produced by boiling down juice from sugar cane; especially during sugar refining

Molasses

Molasses () or black treacle (British English) is a viscous substance resulting from refining sugarcane or sugar beets into sugar. Molasses varies by the amount of sugar, method of extraction, and age of plant.