compounds On the other hand, recent devel-opments have indicated that OMWs should be considered as afermentation feedstock to valorize, either as a process water oras a medium rich in nutrients, rather than a waste to discharge,being a microbial substrate for various bioprocesses . OMW-based media have been used for the cultivation ofboth prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms, resulting to theremediation of the waste as also to the synthesis of metabolic com-pounds such as microbial mass exo-polysaccharides, enzymes and finallybioethanol .Molasses, the by-product of the sugar-processing facilities havebeen used as starting material for the biotechnological production