What is a sorghum press?
Ditch standard sweeteners and try making your own with the GrainMaker® Sorghum Press, an easy-to-operate, hand-fed press that squeezes juice from fresh sorghum, or sugar cane.
Which is healthier sorghum or molasses?
Possible Disadvantages of Sorghum Sorghum syrup is still a sweetener, and it actually has more calories per tablespoon than molasses, maple syrup, or white sugar and about equal to honey. If you’re diabetic or need to avoid blood sugar spikes, sorghum is not a safe alternative sweetener.
What’s the difference between molasses and sorghum?
Sorghum syrup is made from the green juice of the sorghum plant, which is extracted from the crushed stalks and then heated to steam off the excess water leaving the syrup behind. Conversely, molasses is the by-product of processing sugar cane into sugar.
Which is healthier honey or sorghum?
The benefits and advantages seem to really outweigh the advantages of honey in almost every way. Not only is Soghum easy to grow, but the mineral content of sorghum blows honey away. Take a look at the chart below. Sorghum is also high in Vitamin B6 when compared to honey.
What can you make out of sorghum?
Sorghum flour: Ground grain sorghum, or sorghum flour, can be used in any number of recipes, especially ones that call for whole wheat flour. Sorghum flour is particularly useful for gluten-free baking, and can be used to make flatbreads, like injera, quick breads, muffins, pasta, and desserts.
Why do farmers grow sorghum?
Corn yields more after sorghum than after corn, it’s drought tolerant, catches more snow and pheasants love it. With advances in corn genetics to increase drought tolerance and the adoption of glyphosate-resistant corn, many farmers may ask, “Why should I grow grain sorghum?”
Can you make molasses from sorghum?
Sorghum looks like a corn stalk without ears of corn. While cutting, Newby explains, “It takes three trailer loads (of sorghum) to make a batch of molasses.” He has assembled volunteers, friends and family members to help with the intense labor of cutting the sorghum and stripping the leaves off the stalks.
