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• Sugar beet — Taxobox name = Sugar beet image width = 270px image caption = Two sugar beets the one on the left has been selectively bred to be smoother than the traditional beet, so that it traps less soil. regnum = Plantae divisio = Magnoliophyta classis =… …   Wikipedia

• Sugar substitute — Sweetener redirects here. For other uses, see Sweetener (disambiguation). Sugar free redirects here. For other uses, see Sugar free (disambiguation). Packets of Assugrin, a brand of cyclamate. A sugar substitute is a food additive that duplicates …   Wikipedia

• sugar beet — a beet, Beta vulgaris, having a white root, cultivated for the sugar it yields. [1810 20] * * * Variety of beet (Beta vulgaris) that accounts for about two fifths of global sugar production, making it second only to sugarcane as a source of the… …   Universalium

• beet — beetlike, adj. /beet/, n. 1. any of various biennial plants belonging to the genus Beta, of the goosefoot family, esp. B. vulgaris, having a fleshy red or white root. Cf. sugar beet. 2. the edible root of such a plant. 3. the leaves of such a… …   Universalium

• BEET — The plant referred to in rabbinic literature as tered, or selek (Er. 29a) is the spinach beet (Beta vulgaris, var. Cicla). The present varieties, red beet, sugar beet, and fodder beet, were unknown to the ancients. Although the long white root of …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Michigan Sugar Company — is an agricultural cooperative, based in Bay City, Michigan, that specializes in the processing of beet sugar. Founded in 1906, Michigan Sugar sells beet sugar under the brand names Big Chief and Pioneer.[1] Findlay su …   Wikipedia

• Henry Grow — (October 1, 1817 November 4, 1891) was a Latter day Saint ( Mormon ) builder and civil engineer in pioneer era Utah. His most notable achievement was aiding the construction of the Salt Lake Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah.… …   Wikipedia

• Norm Coleman — For the former Secretary of Agriculture, see Norman Jay Coleman. Norm Coleman United States Senator from Minnesota In office January 3 …   Wikipedia

• History of agriculture in the People's Republic of China — For over 4,000 years, China has been a nation of farmers. By the time the People s Republic of China was established in 1949, virtually all arable land was under cultivation; irrigation and drainage systems constructed centuries earlier and… …   Wikipedia

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• Latin America, history of — Introduction       history of the region from the pre Columbian period and including colonization by the Spanish and Portuguese beginning in the 15th century, the 19th century wars of independence, and developments to the end of World War II.… …   Universalium