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about 17% of the beet is sugar, the rest is fibre and water.... * sorry will go now ... *
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I could live with that then.Originally posted by RedThorn View Post
If a SB was the size of a small swede that would give you as much sugar as you could fit in a hens eggshell?
I bet it's a bit of bugger to get it out though!
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Extract the juice, evaporate the water & what's left is sugar? It'd be brown sugar though, and at some point what you extract becomes black treacle and golden syrup...
I need an episode of 'Come Outside' with Aunty Mabel & Pippin the dog to explain it
(a kids/schools programme that explains how things happen)
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British Sugar....Is a very eco friendly company....I wrote an article on it.
Bascally they recycle everything...including the CO2 which they pump into their Tomato greenhouses that are heated by the hot water that is a by product of the sugar making.My phone has more Processing power than the Computers NASA used to fake the Moon LandingsComment
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There is a big sugar factory not far from us in Bury St Edmunds.
OH was amazed when I told him they grow beet round here to make sugar (we even have a sugar beet club - social club lol). her thought it all came form the carribean!
He ws also amazed to learn that the heat and water from the factories is re-used to grow tomatoes... Brilliant idea!Comment
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They're quite a reasonable size, bigger than the average swede - I remember we used to get wagon loads of them going past our house when I was a kid.Originally posted by Snadger View PostI could live with that then. If a SB was the size of a small swede that would give you as much sugar as you could fit in a hens eggshell?
Related story - a family friend of ours farmed the stuff (please ignore the evil that is monocultures for a minute
) and was once investigated by the tax man who accused him of selling his produce at the farm gate an not declaring his earnings. It took him ages to convince them that there isn't really a market for sugar beet from the average passer by.
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Sainsbury's have recently changed from Tate & Lyle natural cane sugar to Silver Spoon ersatz beet sugar. Shall not be buying any more sugar from Sainsburys.
Chemically, beet sugar may be 'the same as' cane sugar, but I prefer the real thing, and will not buy the ersatz.
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I know that we're not going to agree but sugar beet sugar is just as much the real thing as cane sugar.
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Can't understand your logic there valmarg?.Originally posted by valmarg View Post............unless you have shares in a sugar plantation!
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emmm its like saying that you are only going to buy BP petrol..becausae that comes from Persia and Esso is that American substute.
You can only tell the diferance between sugar obtained from Cane or Beet by a chemical test.
We have been producing Sugar in the UK from Beet since the 1800's. The only reason we use Beet is that Cane will not grow here as it is too cold.My phone has more Processing power than the Computers NASA used to fake the Moon LandingsComment
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Are you not far from Bury either?Maybe we could have a Grape meet outside the sugar factory!Originally posted by janeyo View Post
Kirsty B is also close to Bury...that makes at least three of us!the fates lead him who will;him who won't they drag.
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We like it that way!Originally posted by zazen999 View Post
Actually, I hate sugar beet factories ... there's a huge one on our train line, and it chuffing stinks, worse than Comfrey Tea.
There's sugar beet in most of the fields round here. Made me laugh on the bus the other day when an old guy, up from London on holiday, spoke very authoritatively about the 'cabbages' in the field we were passing. I decided not to get involved and let him chunter on to the rest of the bus
If anyone's interested, this is how they make sugar from beets: http://www.sucrose.com/lbeet.htmlLast edited by Two_Sheds; 09-08-2009, 08:01 AM.All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.Comment
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So, how about home extraction?Originally posted by Two_Sheds View Post Or is it that, you can grow it..................... but it's impossible to get the sugar out without building a stinking factory!
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All this sugar talk got me checking my bag to see what it said.
I was amazed to read this
Silver Spoon Half Spoon Sugar
Granulated Sugar with added sweeteners.
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Got a big Sugar Beet factory in Bury St Edmunds. Can see it from the ward windows on a clear day.Originally posted by Snadger View PostAint got any round here and i didn't know they existed until you just mentioned it!
*I must live a VERY sheltered life*
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