beet sugar
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of beet sugar
First recorded in 1825–35
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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
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 Western Sugar Cooperative PAC, another large beet sugar producer, kicked in $43,000.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2021
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
For beet sugar showed that in order to create that perfect sweetness you did not need slaves, you did not need plantations, in fact you did not even need cane.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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