Is sugarbeet better than sugar cane for sugar extraction.?

Question

I understand in temporate countries the extraction from sugarbeet is more and the ethonal extraction as well.

Answer 1

yes

Answer 2

Cane sugar seems to taste better than beet sugar in a blind test recently conducted by The San Francisco Chronicle. Also the yield of Sugar from a ton of sugar cane is more than from a ton of beet.

In the Tropics - West Indies, Mauritius, India, Fiji etc - it is all sugar cane. Also for ethanol. Only in temperate countries Beet is used, simply because cane just doesn't grow there -not because Beet is better.

Answer 3

The body breaks both sugar and starch down into glucose sugar for energy, but whereas starch is a nutritional requirement of the body, sugar is not. Table sugar(called sucrose)is a popular part of our everyday lives simply because we like the taste of sweet food, but it contains only calories, and no nutrients. Although it is obtained from sugar cane and sugar beets, it is produced by a complex refining process which robs the beets and cane of their nutrients. Every brown sugar, which many people thick of as being healthy, is chemically almost identical to white table sugar.

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Answer 4

Your understanding is correct. Sugarbeet grown in the Agricultural University yielded well but sugar content and extraction were not comparable to sugarcane... In the years to come (or is it already underway?) they may develop techniqes to improve both.. As it is we do not have a need toseek a substitute but scientists do not leave any stone unturned in case sugarcane entries become problematic (such as acute Red Rot damage) in a area, they can raise beet in future..

Answer 5

sugar cane better than sugarbeet for sugar extraction

Answer 6

Yes. Especially fresh from Hawaii.

Answer 7

I have been told that "cane sugar " is better for baking.

Answer 8

they are both sugar just from different plants - big deal