go into ecstasy over this “natural health food.” A natural health food, mind you! And some mighty big names in the “health field” lend their endorsement—in fact almost all the big names in the popular health field would consider themselves remiss if they had not sung the praises of blackstrap molasses.
Before we get into the nitty gritty of just what blackstrap molasses represents and how this foul-tasting waste product came to be so popular, let’s investigate that “natural” angle.
When we speak of a natural food we mean, of course, a natural food for humans.
Now Nature has been, on the scene for who knows how many eons of time. Blackstrap molasses has yet to reach its 300th birthday! Nature came mightly late in providing us with this wonder food! Nevertheless, let’s put blackstrap molasses to the “natural” test.
1.	TO BE NATURAL, a food must be one to which humans have adapted anatomically, physiologically and psychologically.
2.	TO BE NATURAL, a food must be delicious to the palate of humans in its natural state.
3.	TO BE NATURAL, a food must be eaten and relished in its living or raw state. Humans, like animals, weren’t endowed with cook stoves.
4.	TO BE NATURAL, a food must have been nurtured to its finished state by Nature by strictly natural agencies.
5.	TO BE NATURAL, a food must appeal to unperverted human gustatory senses, i.e., to our senses of smell, taste and sight such as does a beautiful redolent apple, for instance.
6.	TO BE NATURAL, a food can be eaten alone and relished by unperverted palates. 
These are only some of the criteria for a natural food of humans. How does molasses stack up against these yardsticks?
1.	To begin with, humans haven’t been eating molasses long. No adaptation whatsoever could be possible. Psychologically the product has no appeal at all except that we are conditioned to it as we are to other perversions. Children rebel against the stuff, something they don’t do with, say, apples or bananas.
2.	Molasses is not delicious to any normal palate and is repulsive to most who “eat it for health” reasons. Molasses has no natural state inasmuch as Nature never created such an abomination.
3.	Of course Nature did not even get into the act on molasses—it is strictly a manufactured product. To represent that the sugar cane and beets from which it came is reared organically by natural means is a gross absurdity.
4.	Molasses has no living state, for Nature did not create it. It is a waste product in the production of white sugar with all its evils plus a host of its own. Molasses is one of the most cooked substances you can buy. As our friends into Yoga would say—it has no prana or life force.
5.	Blackstrap molasses is repulsive to our senses of smell of taste and sight. 
6.	And last, but not least, blackstrap molasses cannot be relished by itself by even the hardiest! A proper food of humans can be eaten as a meal. For instance we can make a mono meal of any one of these foods: apples, watermelons, cantaloupes, bananas, grapes, oranges, peaches, apricots, figs, dates, etc. And you can live well on one of these foods alone for several weeks with healthful results. Many people do! Can you imagine trying to live on a mono diet of blackstrap molasses for several weeks? Or some of its syrup cousins, including the highly touted maple syrup and honey?