Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Sugar Beet |
Sugar BeetNoun1. Form of the common beet having a sweet white root from which sugar is obtained. 2. White-rooted beet grown as a source of sugar. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A beet, Beta vulgaris, from which sugar is extracted. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Sugar beet Beta vulgaris L., one of the Goosefoot (Chenopodiaceae) family, is a plant that contains a very high concentration of sucrose, and is grown commercially for sugar.
Sugar beets are grown in North America, Europe and some parts of South America. Beet sugar accounts for 30% of the world's sugar production.
The beets are harvested in the autumn, washed carefully, peeled and chipped, and then placed in a machine called a diffuser to extract their sugar content. The diffuser is a large horizontal or vertical tank in which the beets slices slowly work their way from one end to the other while the water is agitated in the opposite direction. This is called a counter-current flow, and it extracts more sugar from the chips than if they were merely sitting in a hot water bath. Once the beet chips have passed through the diffuser they still contain sugary liquid, so they are pressed in a screw press to extract the last juices. The remaining beet pulp is turned into animal feed, and the beet juice is further processed.
The next stage in the processing is carbonation. The sugar juice contains many impurities that must be removed before it can be dehydrated, so small clusters of chalk are grown in the liquid. The chalk extracts the impurities from the mix, leaving a pure, if weak, sugar solution. This sugar solution is then concentrated in a multi-stage evaporating machine.
Finally, the syrup is boiled in large vats to concentrate the solution and create sugar crystals. These crystals are removed from the liquid in a centrifuge and dried out using hot air.Sugar Extraction
Two byproducts of the sugar processing are beet pulp, which is used for animal food, and beet molasses, which is used in alcohol production or in animal feed.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sugar beet."
Crosswords: Sugar Beet |
| Specialty definitions using "sugar beet": CARBONATION EQUIPMENT OPERATOR, CONTINUOUS-ABSORPTION-PROCESS OPERATOR ♦ DORR OPERATOR ♦ WASHROOM CLEANER. (references) |
| Domain | Title | ||
References | |||
Books |
| ||
Periodicals |
| ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | In Salinas, California, geneticist Robert Lewellen (left) and technician Jose Orozco evaluate sugar beet breeding lines for disease resistance. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | Root-rotting fungi can weaken, stunt, or kill sugar beet plants. Here, geneticist Leonard Panella evaluates sugar beet plants for resistance to the fungal disease Rhizoctonia root rot. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
 | Treasure Co., Mont. June 1939. Young sugar beet worker with his dog A. Rothstein. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon. October 1939. Loading a truck in a sugar beet field. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Farmer buys sugar beet tops for feed. Brighton, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Children of Mexican sugar beet workers on porch of one of the houses at Saginaw Farms, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Family of Mexican sugar beet workers. Saginaw County, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Wives of sugar beet workers. Saginaw County, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mexican woman living in the Mexican sugar beet area. Saginaw County, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mexican home in sugar beet area. Saginaw County, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Until now, such a clearance has not been given, although approval is pending for 21 genetically modified plants (7 sugar beet, 9 rape seeds, 5 corn). (references) | |
Economic History | Moldova | The year 2000 saw an increase, albeit insignificant in both sugar beet and sugar. (references) |
Moldova | Sugar beet output grew 1.7 percent, while sugar output increased 3.4 percent to 102 thousand tons. (references) | |
Moldova | There are 10 privatized sugar beet enterprises in the north of the country, members of the Association of Sugar Refineries. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sugar beet | 45 |
sugar beet seed | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sugar beet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | panxhar sheqeri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سكر الشمندر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | захарно цвекло. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 菾 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | cukrovka (diabetes). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sukkerroer (sugar cane, sugarbeet), sukkerroe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | suikerbieten (sugarbeet), suikerbiet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sokerijuurikas (sugar-beet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | betterave sucre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Zuckerrübe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ζαχαρότευτλο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | cukorrépa (beet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | barbabietole da zucchero (sugarbeet), barbabietola zuccherina, barbabietola da zucchero, barbabietola (beet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "菜 , "菜 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | か"さい (carried aboard a warship, court of summary offences, dried vegetables, full payment, Kansai, liquidation, summary court), て"さい (disaster, genius, horizon, natural calamity, natural gift, prodigy, reprinting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | beetys shugyr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ugarsay eetbay beterraba sacarina (sugarbeet). (various references) сахарная свекла (sugar-beet, white beet). (various references) šećerna repa (beet sugar). (various references) remolacha azucarera. (various references) sockerbeta. (various references) ต้นไม้ซึ่งใช้รากทำน้ำตาล. (various references) şekerpancarı. (various references) буряк (beet, beet-root). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | beta vulgaris var.altissima. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-g-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: absterge, auberges, barguest. | |
-2 letters: arbutes, auberge, austere, baguets, bareges, bargees, beaters, berates, burgees, bursate, ergates, gesture, rebates, restage. | |
-3 letters: abuser, agrees, arbute, aretes, argues, augers, baguet, barege, barest, bargee, barges, baster, beater, beauts, begets, berate, berets, breast, brutes, burets, burgee, bursae, buster, eagers, eagres, easter, eaters, egesta, egrets, ergate, gaster, grates, grease, greats. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-g-r-s-t-u" | |
+3 letters: beardtongues. | |
+4 letters: staggerbushes, subcategories, subcategorize, subgeneration. | |
+5 letters: beleaguerments, subcategorized, subcategorizes, subgenerations. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
