What is patho?

What is patho? Since childhood, we know that this is a very sweet, viscous syrup. And we do not know anything else about her, since in stores it is rarely sold. We learn about the molasses more in this article.

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What is patho?

Syrup - The fermentation product, a semi -finished product, a preservative formed in the production of sugar and starch. The path is:

Bright, it is sweeter than sugar, it turns out in the production of starch and sugar, resembles liquid honey (sold as artificial honey).
Dark patho or melasobtained from sugar in sugar. In Melassa, Sakharov is much smaller than in light and sugar itself, but more vitamins and minerals.

In the chemical composition, light molasses consists of maltose, dextrin and glucose, and in dark, instead of glucose, sucrose (50%).

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The beneficial properties of the patho

What is the usefulness of the molasses?

There are vitamins of group B and minerals (iron, calcium, magnesium, potassium, copper) in the molasses.
It is useful to take pregnant women.
Improves the condition of the body of women when menopause.
It is more useful to take the stream than sugar during the treatment of stomach ulcers.
With prolonged use of molasses, it improves brain function, removes a headache, insomnia, calms the nervous system, condition after stress.
Normalizes cholesterol and blood pressure.
Reduces joint inflammation in arthritis.

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To whom is the patho is contraindicated?

The patho also has contraindications, but there are few of them:

Allergy to the patho
Diabetes

Important! You can not eat a lot of molasses, you can get diabetes mellitus

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Where is the patho used?

Light patho is used:

In the confectionery industry during baking cookies and gingerbread, with molasses they are more tender and magnificent than with sugar, do not stale for a long time.
In the production of beer and drinks.
When cooking jam, jam, marmalade on a production scale.
In the manufacture of pastille, marshmallows, caramel sweets and lords.
Ice cream is made with molasses, since the freezing point of products decreases with it.
Add to food designed for sports nutrition.
It is used in the production of textiles.

In Russia, dark molasses are mainly on cattle feed and is added in the manufacture of concrete, and in America dark molasses are used along with the light in the confectionery industry. Dark patho is also used in production:

Ethyl alcohol
Bakery yeast
Synthetic acids used in cooking (milk, citric, acetic, oxavere, gluconut, propionic)

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How to cook molasses at home?

In stores, we rarely see molasses, and therefore many housewives will want to cook it at home. This is easy to do, but not very fast. Cooking watermelon

For the path, you need:

5-6 medium watermelons

We prepare the molasses:

We cut the washed watermelons in half and select all the pulp with a spoon.
In a large bowl, I will interpret the pulp for potato mashed potatoes.
Pour the resulting gruel into gauze in 2-3 layers, squeeze out the entire liquid.
We let the juice boil for 2 minutes, and turn off the fire.
The cooled juice is again passed through gauze, and cook over low heat, stirring to a state of honey.
From such a number of watermelons, 0.5 liters of pathos will be obtained.

The molasses can be prepared from other sweet fruits: grapes, apples, drain, pears.

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Something else about the molasses

How to measure the right amount of molasses so that it does not remain on the walls of the vessel? Very simple, a spoon or glass needs to be lubricated with vegetable oil, and the molasses will not stick to them.

The molasses are much more useful than sugar, especially dark. In 1 tbsp. l. Melases contain a daily norm: