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The Sugar Beet Crop (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)
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The Sugar Beet Crop (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)
Series: World Crop Series
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D.A. Cooke and R.K. Scott Sugar beet is one of just two crops (the
other being sugar cane) which constitute the only important sources
of sucrose - a product with sweeten ing and preserving properties
that make it a major component of, or additive to, a vast range of
foods, beverages and pharmaceuticals. Sugar, as sucrose is almost
invariably called, has been a valued compo nent of the human diet
for thousands of years. For the great majority of that time the
only source of pure sucrose was the sugar-cane plant, varieties of
which are all species or hybrids within the genus Saccharum. The
sugar-cane crop was, and is, restricted to tropical and subtropical
regions, and until the eighteenth century the sugar produced from
it was available in Europe only to the privileged few. However, the
expansion of cane production, particularly in the Caribbean area,
in the late seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries, and the new
sugar-beet crop in Europe in the nineteenth century, meant that
sugar became available to an increasing proportion of the world's
population."
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