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Quoted from Jim Ingersoll's message at 03:58 PM 10/29/2004:
>  One tablespoon of molassas has 45 calories, figure 20tbs in a cup of 
> molassas or 900 calories of pure sugar.

Why figure 20 tbs in a cup of molasses when a cup only holds 16 tbs and 
some of that has to be other than pure sugar?  I went online and found that 
a cup of molasses has 872 calories, whereas pure cane sugar actually has 
774 calories.  Of course, the site I used could be wrong.

Meanwhile, one needs to figure what percentage molasses is of beet pulp, 
which would give you the ability to calculate the actual number of calories 
derived from the molasses component, and that would depend on the 
manufacturer.  If there was even a tbs of molasses being used as a binder 
in a cup of beet pulp I'd be surprised, but I could be wrong, not having a 
label to look at since I'm using  beet pulp pellets with no molasses listed 
as an ingredient.  


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