Sugar obtained from sugar cane; see under beet sugar.
The sugar obtained from sugar beet (household sugar, granulated sugar), which accounts for around half of global production. The main area of distribution of this fruit is Europe, but it is also cultivated in the USA, Canada and Asia. The second half of production comes from sugar cane, and the cane sugar obtained from it is chemically identical to beet sugar. The German chemist Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (1709-1782) first identified the sugar content of...
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