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The sugar beet has a conical, white, fleshy root (a taproot) with a flat crown. The plant consists of the root and a rosette of leaves. Sugar is formed by photosynthesis in the leaves and is then stored in the root. The root of the beet contains 75% water, about 20% [7] sugar, and 5% pulp. [9] The exact sugar content can vary between 12% and 21 ...
Cultivar group members. Many; see text. The beetroot (British English) or beet (North American English) is the taproot portion of a Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris plant in the Conditiva Group. [1] The plant is also known as the table beet, garden beet, red beet, dinner beet or golden beet. Beetroot can be eaten raw, roasted, or boiled.
Beginning of seed development: seeds visible in infructescence 75: Pericarp green; fruit still mouldable; perisperm milky; colour of seed coat: beige 8: Ripening 81: Beginning of ripening: pericarp green-brown, seed coat light brown 85: Pericarp light brown, seed coat reddish brown 87: Pericarp hard, seed coat dark brown 89
Cosun Beet Company (before 2020 Suiker Unie)[1] is a part of Royal Cosun. It produces white sugar and other refined sugar products. By acquiring the beet sugar division of Corbion in 2007 and Danisco Sugar GmbH in 2008, Cosun Beet Company became one of the five biggest European producers of sugar from sugar beet.
Flowers of Beta vulgaris. Beta vulgaris is a herbaceous biennial or, rarely, perennial plant up to 120 cm (rarely 200 cm) height; cultivated forms are mostly biennial. The roots of cultivated forms are dark red, white, or yellow and moderately to strongly swollen and fleshy (subsp. vulgaris); they are brown, fibrous, sometimes swollen, and ...
Mangelwurzel or mangold wurzel (from German Mangel/Mangold, "chard" and Wurzel, "root"), also called mangold, [1] mangel beet, [1] field beet, [2] fodder beet and (archaic) root of scarcity, [3][4][5] is a cultivated root vegetable. It is a variety of Beta vulgaris, [5] the same species that also contains the red beet (beetroot) and sugar beet ...
Sea beet is an erect and sprawling perennial plant up to 60 cm (2 ft) high with dark green, leathery, untoothed, shiny leaves. The lower leaves are wavy and roughly triangular while the upper leaves are narrow and oval. The inflorescence is borne on a thick, fleshy grooved stem in a leafy spike. The individual flowers are green and tiny with ...
Jennifer Lopez is sharing a behind-the-scenes look at a recent night out.. The singer and actress, 55, celebrated the opening night of the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California, which featured ...