Sugar beat - Sugar Cain is there a difference?!
Sugar Cane is a bamboo like crop grown abroad marketed as Tate & Lyle.
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Answers: Sugar beet is a root crop produced in this country (markets as Silver Spoon)
Sugar Cane is a bamboo like crop grown abroad marketed as Tate & Lyle.
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Sugar cane a Grass
Sugar beet a root vegtable
...when processed the sugar obtained is pretty much the same.
Sugar beet is a root http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_beet
Sugar Cane is a cane and looks like bamboo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugarcane
Sugar Cane is a grass type crop, similar to bamboo. Sugar beet is a root vegetable, similar to swede.
Sugar Cane is a grass with succulent juicy stem which can be crushed to obtain the juice . The juice can be drunk fresh or be processed into sugar.
Sugar beet is a root vegetable with a juicy root . The juice can be processed to get sugar and the root can be eaten raw as a salad or cooked as a vegetable .
the main difference, besides how each is processed, is that sugar cane is a grass, just like other grains are. if you are allergic to wheat or any other grain, you may be allergic to cane sugar. buyer beware!