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  2. Sugar beet - Wikipedia

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    A sugar beet is a plant whose root contains a high concentration of sucrose and that is grown commercially for sugar production. In plant breeding, it is known as the Altissima cultivar group of the common beet (Beta vulgaris). [1]

  3. Beta vulgaris - Wikipedia

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    Altissima Group, [12] sugar beet (Syn. B. v. subsp. v. convar. vulgaris var. altissima) [13] - The sugar beet is a major commercial crop due to its high concentrations of sucrose, which is extracted to produce table sugar. It was developed from garden beets in Germany in the late 18th century after the roots of beets were found to contain sugar ...

  4. Sugar industry of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Sugar beets are the other leading raw material for manufactured sugar in the United States. This is a sturdy crop grown in a wide variety of temperate climatic conditions and planted annually. Sugar beets can be stored for a short while after harvest, but must be processed before sucrose deterioration occurs.

  5. Beet sugar factory - Wikipedia

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    A beet sugar factory, or sugar factory, is a type of production facility that produces sugar from sugar beets or alternative plants to sugarcane in making refined sugar. These factories process the beets to produce refined sugar , similar to sugarcane in other regions.

  6. List of sugar refineries - Wikipedia

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    Sugar Factories, commonly abbreviated as PG partikulir and state-owned in Indonesia began to emerge after the start of the era of liberalism during the Dutch East Indies colonial period (1870), with the introduction of Land Lease Rights for use for 70 years.

  7. 10 Types of Sugar, Explained (Because There’s More ... - AOL

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    White sugar is a refined product that’s made by boiling raw sugar cane or sugar beets to extract the sugar and then spinning the unrefined sugar in a centrifuge to remove the molasses and ...

  8. The Surprising Side Effects of Eating Beets, According ... - AOL

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    Sugar beets are white and used as sweeteners. Beetroot comes in a wide range of purple and red hues, as well as golden and yellow. (There are also some heirloom varieties of beetroot that are ...

  9. Sucrose - Wikipedia

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    Andreas Marggraf identified sucrose in beet root [28] and his student Franz Achard built a sugar beet processing factory in Silesia (Prussia). The beet-sugar industry took off during the Napoleonic Wars, when France and the continent were cut off from Caribbean sugar. In 2009, about 20 percent of the world's sugar was produced from beets. [29]