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Officials in Warren, Minn., partly surrounded by sugar beet fields, had to physically lower the pump at the town’s well by 63 feet in order to keep providing drinking water to more than 1,500 residents, including those in a hospital and nursing home.
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Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2023
Macdonald had a mental image of an American diner in the middle of a sugar beet field and a premise about the military weaponizing memories.
—Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
Alternatives to aspartame include other artificial sweeteners such as saccharin and sucralose, sugar alcohols like sorbitol and xylitol, naturally derived sugar-free sweeteners like Stevia and simple sugars, such as those in sugar cane, sugar beets and honey.
—Jiangang Chen, The Conversation, 21 July 2023
Some also work in potatoes, sugar beets or peanuts.
—Steven Savage, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
That changed in the 19th century, when a series of events—the Haitian Revolution, widespread abolition of slavery, war between Britain and France, and the rise of the European sugar beet industry—shook up the Caribbean sugar industry and sent prices plummeting.
—Susannah Skiver Barton, Bon Appétit, 16 Sep. 2022
For example, sweetener costs have increased across the board, with the recent hurricane shutting down sugar cane refineries in Louisiana, drought shriveling the sugar beet yields in the Upper Midwest and, MacKie says, even corn and other sweetener prices rising by double digits.
—Laura Reiley, Alyssa Fowers, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2021
The worst-ever outbreak of bird flu has shrunk egg supply, while refined-sugar costs have been driven higher by adverse weather for the US sugar beet crop and tighter global supplies that limited imports.
—Michael Hirtzer, Bloomberg.com, 13 Dec. 2022
The food industry is literally treating our kids like lab rats: At least 94% of the corn crop, 88% of the soy crop and 95% of the sugar beet crop are GMO...
—Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2013
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Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2023
Macdonald had a mental image of an American diner in the middle of a sugar beet field and a premise about the military weaponizing memories.
—Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
Alternatives to aspartame include other artificial sweeteners such as saccharin and sucralose, sugar alcohols like sorbitol and xylitol, naturally derived sugar-free sweeteners like Stevia and simple sugars, such as those in sugar cane, sugar beets and honey.
—Jiangang Chen, The Conversation, 21 July 2023
Some also work in potatoes, sugar beets or peanuts.
—Steven Savage, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
That changed in the 19th century, when a series of events—the Haitian Revolution, widespread abolition of slavery, war between Britain and France, and the rise of the European sugar beet industry—shook up the Caribbean sugar industry and sent prices plummeting.
—Susannah Skiver Barton, Bon Appétit, 16 Sep. 2022
For example, sweetener costs have increased across the board, with the recent hurricane shutting down sugar cane refineries in Louisiana, drought shriveling the sugar beet yields in the Upper Midwest and, MacKie says, even corn and other sweetener prices rising by double digits.
—Laura Reiley, Alyssa Fowers, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2021
The worst-ever outbreak of bird flu has shrunk egg supply, while refined-sugar costs have been driven higher by adverse weather for the US sugar beet crop and tighter global supplies that limited imports.
—Michael Hirtzer, Bloomberg.com, 13 Dec. 2022
The food industry is literally treating our kids like lab rats: At least 94% of the corn crop, 88% of the soy crop and 95% of the sugar beet crop are GMO...
—Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2013
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First Known Use
1817, in the meaning defined above
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sugar beet
noun
: a white-rooted beet grown for the sugar in its roots
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