reducing sugar
the root, its like a carrot
Turnip is a root vegetable that looks like beet. Beetroot Sugar Beet Parsnip Swede
beet root, sugar cane and sweet potato produce sugar.
They are the same, in most cases. Red beet is the common name for beet root sold as food. Beet root is more generic, and can refer to other members of the beetroot family, such as sugar beets.
Sugar-beet harvesters lift the whole root from the ground, clean it, and deliver it to a bin.
I think you refer to 'sugar beet' it is not any type of cane. It is a root crop with a tap root similar to beetroot. It is grown in cooler climates for sugar production.
F. P. Polupanov has written: 'Mechanization of the cultivation and harvesting of sugar beet' -- subject(s): Harvesting, Beet sugar, Beets, Sugar beet industry, Sugar beet, Beet sugar industry
A beet is technically a root. So the root of the plant is the beet, and whatever that grows out of it is the actual 'plant' portion.
Tap root
beet-as in sugar beet
The tap root was not known until the 2nd or 3rd Century AD. It was grown from 2000 BC for its leaves and then by the Greeks and Romans as 'Chard' or as Spinach. It was later used (in Italy) as a vegetable, roasted whole. In England it was used as cattle fodder during the 18th Century. During the Napoleonic Wars France was deprived of sugar by the English Fleet and Napoleon encouraged research into Sugar Beet. By the 1850's sugar from beet had become well established over Europe