Hi David,

Do you know much about the fructose content in black strap molasses?

My friend who is a naturopath recommended it to me while im pregnant (and a vegetarian) as a way of getting increased iron and other nutrients etc. She said unlike other types of molasses it is a byproduct of the very last stage of processing sugar cane into sugar - and therefore has very little sugar. However it is very sweet tasting to me so wondering how much fructose may be in there?

Cheers,

Kate

 

 

 

Kate ... here's some info on other sources of iron: http://www.vegsoc.org/info/iron.html Cheers David

I have a bread machine and bake my own bread. I first baked bread without suger and it seemed okay. Then I found out the suger helped the yeast to work and so makes better loaf. I make a rye and spelt wholegain loaf and the recipee say's put 2 teaspns of suger in. I might eat half of this loaf in a day although I will eventually cut down. Is this small amount of suger dangerous? Maybe the yeast changes the fructose to something else and makes some of it safe. Maybe I should put glucose in instead but I don't want a high GI bread.