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beet sugar

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beet sugar: see beet beet, biennial or annual root vegetable of the family Chenopodiaceae (goosefoot family). The beet (Beta vulgaris) has been cultivated since pre-Christian times.
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; sucrose sucrose , commonest of the sugars, a white, crystalline solid disaccharide (see carbohydrate) with a sweet taste, melting and decomposing at 186°C; to form caramel. It is known commonly as cane sugar, beet sugar, or maple sugar, depending upon its natural source.
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beet sugar
the sucrose obtained from sugar beet, identical in composition to cane sugar

beet sugar [′bēt ‚shu̇g·ər]
(food engineering)
Sugar made from sugarbeets by crystallization of the syrup extracted from the roots.


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Hence, the reports blaming the present sugar crisis on the levy of excise duty on beet sugar in 1995 are without logic and merit.
Produced from pure beet sugar, it has a mild, sugar-like sweetness profile, while supplying only half as many calories.
In 2005, the Cuban government signed contracts with Belarus for the purchase of about 50,000 tons of beet sugar.
 
 
 
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