Beet sugar VS. Cane?!
Beet sugar VS. Cane?
What is the difference? What products include beet sugar?
Answers:
Sugar beet is a plant whose root contains a high concentration of sucrose(a kind of sugar). It is grown commercially for sugar.
Sugar beet syrup
An unrefined sugary syrup can be produced directly from sugar beet. This thick, dark syrup is produced by cooking shredded sugar beet for several hours, then pressing the resulting sugar beet mash and concentrating the juice produced until it has the consistency similar to that of honey. No other ingredients are used. In Germany, particularly the Rhineland area, this sugar beet syrup is used as a spread for sandwiches, as well as for sweetening sauces, cakes and desserts.
Commercially, if the syrup has a Dextrose Equivalency above 30 DE, the product has to be hydrolyzed and converted to a high fructose syrup, much like High Fructose Corn Syrup, or iso-glucose syrup in the EU.
Sugarcane or Sugar cane is a genus of 6 to 37 species of tall grasses native to warm temperate to tropical regions . They have stout, jointed, fibrous stalks that are rich in sugar and measure 2 to 6 meters tall. All of the sugarcane species interbreed, and the major commercial cultivars are complex hybrids.
the world's largest producer of sugar cane by far is Brazil. Uses of sugar cane include the production of sugar, Falernum, molasses, rum, cacha?a (the national spirit of Brazil) and ethanol for fuel. The bagasse that remains after sugarcane crushing is used to provide both heat energy, used in the mill, and electricity, which is typically on-sold to the consumer electricity grid.
Sugarcane was, and is still is, extensively grown in the Caribbean, where it was first brought by Christopher Columbus during his second voyage to The Americas