Other Sources of Sugar

Sugar beet (see below) yields a white sugar which is (to scientists although not to marmalade-makers) indistinguishable from white cane sugar. However, the partly refined products which occur during the refining process have a foul smell, as anyone who has been downwind of a beet sugar refinery will know, and a correspondingly bad taste. Consequently there is no brown beet sugar or beet molasses. The waste products are used for animal feed.