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beet sugar

American  

noun

  1. sugar from the roots of the sugar beet.


beet sugar British  

noun

  1. the sucrose obtained from sugar beet, identical in composition to cane sugar

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of beet sugar

First recorded in 1825–35

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In Belgium, the first beet sugar factories were built in 1833; the price for 100 kilos of bones went from 2 francs to 14 francs between 1832 and 1837.

From Science Magazine Apr. 2, 2024

The cake was a heat-treated amalgam of pulverized grass seed, chicken eggs, cow milk and extracted beet sugar.

From Scientific American Dec. 13, 2022

The impact fell heavily on American corporations that had massive agricultural and mineral operations on the fertile island, including Brown Brothers Harriman, whose extensive holdings included the two-hundred-thousand-acre Punta Alegre beet sugar plantation.

From Salon Dec. 9, 2018

And then there are the GMO foods like corn and beet sugar.

From New York Times Sep. 22, 2016

And beet sugar colored by new processes was now outselling cane sugar from the Caribbean.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson

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