The Sugar Beet Crop
Title | The Sugar Beet Crop PDF eBook |
Author | D.A. Cooke |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 683 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 9400903731 |
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.
The Sugar Beet Crop
Title | The Sugar Beet Crop PDF eBook |
Author | D.A. Cooke |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011-09-28 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 9789401066549 |
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.
Sugar Beet Journal
Title | Sugar Beet Journal PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | |
Release | 1953 |
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Journal of the American Society of Sugar Beet Technologists
Title | Journal of the American Society of Sugar Beet Technologists PDF eBook |
Author | American Society of Sugar Beet Technologists |
Publisher | |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Sugar |
ISBN |
The Sugar Beet
Title | The Sugar Beet PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Grimshaw |
Publisher | |
Pages | 834 |
Release | 1880 |
Genre | Beet sugar |
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Journal of Sugar Beet Research
Title | Journal of Sugar Beet Research PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 70 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Sugar beet |
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Sugar Beet Journal
Title | Sugar Beet Journal PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 31 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Beet sugar industry |
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