Gold Run Sorghum

Real Sorghum from Real American Farmers

Sorghum is a natural sweetener made from the juice extracted from the sorghum cane that is thinkened using an evaporation process. The thickness of sorghum is measured in bricks. The optimal bricks for sorghum is between 81 - 85 brix.

One tablespoon (20 gr) typically contains the following nutritional values:

Protein, %Nx6.25	300 mg	Magnesium	20.00 mg
Carbohydrates	15 gm	Phosphorus	11.00 mg
Calories	62	Potassium	200 mg
Calcium	30 mg	Sodium	1.60 mg
Copper	0.03 mg	Zinc	0.80 mg
Iron	0.76 mg	Riboflavin (B2)	0/03 mg

Using sorghum in cooking, baking or even your coffee ads depth and character to your food. Sorghum can be used as a replacement sweetener for most other sweeteners like honey and molasses. It can even be used to replace all or part of processed sugar in recipes.

Sorghum, unlike other sweeteners, delivers many nutritional benefits including calcium, iron, potassium and phosphorous. Doctors used to prescribe sorghum to patients before the creation of multi-vitamins. The health benefits of sorghum have been referenced in articles and publications such as Men's Health magazine.

Additional information about sorghum can be found at the following links:

The National Sweet Sorghum Producers and Processors Association
Sweet Sorghum - An informative site about sweet sorghum.
Sorghum Syrup - Another informative site.
Sorghum Recipes - Great recipes using sweet sorghum.