Beet sugar

Beet sugar is sugar extracted from the sugar beet, a root crop grown in cool climates. All sugar begins by extracting sugar juice from either sugar beet or sugar cane plants, and beets are processed directly into refined sugar, while cane first becomes raw sugar that a refinery finishes.

Sugar beets can be stored for a short while after harvest, but they must be processed before their sucrose deteriorates, so beet factories run in a campaign shortly after harvest. The sliced beets are soaked to draw out the juice, which is cleaned, boiled down and crystallized into white sugar.

Beet sugar is white and granulated like refined cane sugar and is used the same way in baking, candy making and desserts. Most white sugar sold in some regions comes from beets.