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Sugar beets grow exclusively in the temperate zone, in contrast to sugarcane, which grows exclusively in the tropical and subtropical zones. The average weight of a sugar beet ranges between 0.5 and 1 kg (1.1 and 2.2 lb). Sugar beet foliage has a rich, brilliant green color and grows to a height of about 35 cm (14 in).
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 ...
On one plot of land, the sugar factory would be built. On the others, at Sint-Genesius-Rode the farms Boesdaalhoeve and Sint-Gertrudishoeve were built to cultivate sugar beet in rotation with other crops. [2] The first stone for the sugar factory was set on 29 April 1836, and in 1837 construction was complete.
Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima, Sea beet, the wild ancestor of all cultivated beets. Its distribution area reaches from the coasts of Western Europe and the Mediterranean Sea to the Near and Middle East and to India. Beta patula Aiton, endemic on Madeira, Critically Endangered. [7] Beta sect. Corollinae Ulbr. (including Beta Sect. Nanae Ulbr.
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.
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White sugar (and some brown sugar) produced from sugar cane may be refined using bone char by a few sugar cane refiners. [3] Beet sugar has never been processed with bone char and is vegan. [4] In modern times, activated carbon and ion-exchange resin may be used – see Sugar refinery § Purification.
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.