Is gmo beet sugar good

Answer 1

Sugar is a carbohydrate, and all DNA and protein associated with the GM trait are removed during the extraction, of the sugar from the rest of the plant. By extracting only a carbohydrate you are left with a product that contains no protein, no DNA, and therefore no GMO. No lab is able to determine the difference between sugar that came from a GMO plant and sugar that came from a non-GMO plant. "GMO" sugar is just plain old sugar and is no better or worse than "non-GMO" sugar because they are the same stuff. The plants they came from may be different but the sugar is the same.

Answer 2

"Good" is a subjective question. GMOs in general get a bad rap, some of it deserved, but what people need to realize is that planet could support perhaps half its current population without GMOs. GMOs have been bred/designed to be drought and pest resistant, allowing them to grow in areas that would otherwise not support agriculture, and they've been modified for greater yields in fertile areas.

So, yeah, it's great, if you want sugar. Beet sugar is primarily sucrose, same as cane sugar. The "GMO" part doesn't change the sucrose molecule, it just means more of it per beet and/or more usable beets per acre, all else being equal. The refining process strips pretty much all the non-sucrose part out, and sucrose is sucrose; it doesn't matter, chemically speaking, where it came from (it may matter for religious reasons; I am not fully up on the kashrut or halal implications of beet sugar ... I suspect it's okay, but you'd want to consult your rabbi/imam to be sure).