Process for the Production of a Food of a High Nutritive Value from the Molasses of Raw Beet-sugar.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Oct., 1896-Accepted, 16th Jan., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Process for the Production of a Food of a High Nutritive Value
from the Molasses of Raw Beet-sugar.
I, FREDERICK WILLIAM GOLBY, of 36 Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by Julius
Hensel, of Hermsdorf-Kynast, Silesia, Germany, Chemist, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The nutritive value of the molasses employed till now as a food stuff is materially
diminished by the presence therein of carbonate of potassium; in fact the laxative
property of this substance prevents the molasses from being absorbed by the
chyliferous vessels of the intestines and then used for nourishing and renewing the
wasted tissues.
In addition there is a further weighty objection to the molasses as heretofore
used for food, namely that from the combination of the sap of the beet-root with
the lime there results a complete elimination of the phosphoric acid. Now, as the
food should supply the place of the worn-out and repulsed tissues of the body, and
as these tissues necessarily require some salts of phosphoric acid, the food ought
also to contain the same.
It follows therefore that neither the addition of flour of peat nor of any extracted
malt can increase the nutritive value of the molasses.
The object of the present invention is a process by means of which the mineral
stuffs which are contained, chiefly as carbonates, in the molasses are transformed
by the phosphates into nutritive salts.
This new process for preparing from the molasses of raw beet-sugar, a food
stuff applicable for men and animals, consists principally in the transformation of
the nourishing material into phosphates by adding to the carbonates in the molasses,
(namely the carbonate of potassium) some phosphoric acid or phosphates, and
that in this way, the carbonates are eliminated which would diminish the nutritive
value.
For this purpose, to 100 parts by weight of molasses of beet-sugar are added
about 10 parts by weight of phosphoric acid, having the specific gravity of 1200,
which quantity contains 24 parts by weight of anhydrous phosphoric acid.
In order to eliminate the carbonic acid, the so composed mixture is warmed in
a steam-bath and to it is added as much bi-carbonate of soda as will be necessary
to neutralize the free phosphoric acid.
By the addition of the phosphoric acid, not only the carbonate of potassium, but
also a part of the potash which is contained in the sugar and in the starch acids,
are turned into phosphates of potassium. In this way the molasses of beet-root
sugar which hitherto was poor in nourishing stuffs, is in consideration of the
presence of a greater quantity of phosphated proteine, now converted into one of
the most nourishing food stuffs.
Moreover, instead of being thick as hitherto, the molasses acquire fluid consistency
which facilitates its employment.
The phosphated molasses prepared as above described can be mixed with paste
and baked as a nourishing bread, or, may be dissolved in hot water, to form a
beverage, to take the place of coffee and its substitutes, having exceedingly high
nourishing properties.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is ;-
A process for preparing a food of a high nutritive value from the molasses of
raw beet-sugar, characterized by treating the molasses with phosphoric acid or
phosphates, and at the same time neutralizing excess of free phosphoric acid by
the addition of bi-carbonate of soda, in order to transform into nutritive salts the
mineral stuffs, especially the carbonates, which are contained in the molasses
substantially as described.
Dated this 28th day of Oatcher 1806
F. W. GOLBY,
36 Chancery Lane, London, W.C.