beet sugar
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of beet sugar
First recorded in 1825–35
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Food companies started replacing it with cane or beet sugar more than a decade ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
The introduction of phosphates for fertilizer and bone char as an ingredient in beet sugar processing at the beginning of the 19th century transformed bones into a hot commodity.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 2, 2024
Canadian beet sugar has its own atrocious labor history, as University of Saskatchewan professor Ron Laliberté, York University professor Mona Oikawa and other experts have demonstrated.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2023
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
And that is precisely where Marc’s family story begins—with Nina’s grandfather, the serf who bought his freedom from figuring out how to color beet sugar.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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