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Extraction vs Blackstrap - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between extraction and blackstrap

is that extraction is an act of extracting or the condition of being extracted while blackstrap is the dark, viscous molasses remaining after maximum extraction of sugar from raw sugar cane, used in manufacturing and cattle feed.

extraction

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
  • A person's origin or ancestry.
  • Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
  • * Milton
    • They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
  • (military) An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
  • (dentistry) A removal of a tooth from its socket.

    • Synonyms

    * descent, lineage

    blackstrap

    English

    (wikipedia blackstrap)

    Noun

    (-)
  • The dark, viscous molasses remaining after maximum extraction of sugar from raw sugar cane, used in manufacturing and cattle feed.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=July 25, author=David Hochman, title=For Epicures, a New Take on Jerky, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Smoked over cherry and mesquite wood, and dried in a convection oven, it gets its flavors from organic blackstrap molasses, Jim Beam bourbon, and salt and pepper. }}
  • (obsolete) A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses.
  • * Judd
    • No blackstrap to-night; switchel, or ginger pop.
  • (obsolete, nautical, slang) Bad port wine; any common wine of the Mediterranean.