[Sca-cooks] sugar substitutes, may be off topic

[Terry Decker]

By 1850, 15% of the world supply of sugar was from beets.  Today, in the
USA, it is almost 50%, and, I believe, world-wide about 40%.

Bear


>The info on sugar beets is really interesting.  Any idea of the relative
>common-ness of beet sugar vs cane sugar?
>--Maire, who actually works in a converted sugar beet factory (now, two
>floors of grey-carpeted, grey-cubicled Dilbert H*ll <g>)
>