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
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
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
No one could have seen it at the time, but the invention of beet sugar was not just a challenge to cane.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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