Sugar beets

Sugar beets are a type of beet that is bred(...)( or genetically engineered ) to have more sucrose than usual (about 20% by weight, instead of 5% for normal beets). This is a way to produce sugar (sucrose) in areas too cold to grow sugarcane. Even Canada.

Sugar beets often have very high crop calorie yields, which is important for food security. But do we really have to have empty calories? What if we could use unrefined sugar beets for something, so that we could get all their natural nutrients instead of just their sucrose? Sugar beet powder might be one idea.

See also

• Canola - similar in the sense that it's also a crop that's used only for its refined calories (canola oil) despite the fact that it has other nutrients (protein) that we should also consider using.