beet sugar
Americannoun
noun
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
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
Beginning this summer, those brands, which account for roughly half the company’s sales in the United States, also will begin eliminating G.M.O. ingredients, for example, by replacing beet sugar with cane sugar.
From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2016
Now beet sugar set an example of modern farming that helped convince Russian nobles that it was time to free their millions of serfs.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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