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beet sugar:

see beetbeet,
biennial or annual root vegetable of the family Chenopodiaceae (goosefoot family). The beet (Beta vulgaris) has been cultivated since pre-Christian times. Among its numerous varieties are the red, or garden, beet, the sugar beet, Swiss chard, and several types of
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, 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

[′bēt ‚shu̇g·ər]

(food engineering)

Sugar made from sugarbeets by crystallization of the syrup extracted from the roots.

beet sugar

the sucrose obtained from sugar beet, identical in composition to cane sugar

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The deal will free European beet sugar producers from EU legislation from 2017 while sugar cane refiners, such as Tate & Lyle will remain heavily regulated.

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The country produced 5.2 million tonnes of wheat on almost 2 million hectares of land.The INS analysis shows agricultural production was down on all crops, except beet sugar. Potato production was down almost 40 percent, to some 2.4 million tonnes, partially because of the low yield per hectares, but also as the area cultivated with potatoes was also down by 8.2 percent.

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Initially it was decreed that there was insufficient evidence that this competitor for cane and beet sugar was actually safe.