The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-07-26
CANE AND BEET
SUGAR COMPARED

been lost through the. use of beet
sugar. but In NOT single case WAS IT,
found that the person so losing lruit'
positively knew that the sugar from
the beet had been used. -t---
The following is typical Of all the
answers received TO letters OF in
Quiry on the subject
Il know nothing of the relative
nerits of the beet sugar and cane
sugar, and merely state that / had
i.een told that the one was sweeter
than the other, and n lady at the
table stated that some years ago she
had been given to understand that
beet sugar was not good to put up
preserves
Writing concerning this subject.
one OF the largest and best-Known
preservers of California says;
I'VE have used this (beet sugar.
very largely in our work ior the past
four or five years, using II almost
exclusively in our fruit department.
AID we put up as fine goods as can
lie made. We think that alone speaks
well for the beet sugar. While II
VIII not cook quite as white as the
cane sugar and boils easier yet with
most goods we find 1t Is fully as
good as the cane sugar We do not
use any antiseptlcs whatever in our
fruits and have no trouble with the
keeping qualities "
The secret oil success In canning
Les in a perfect sterilizing of the
iruit and syrup, and one of the can,
ners In replying to an inquiry as TO
their use oil beet sugar expressed
the matter very tersely in the follow
lrg words:
While we have not so far used
teet sugar. yet we believe we would
have no trouble in sterillzinS beet
sugar syrup than cane sugar syrup
oI water"
In the early days OF sugar refining
there may possibly have been some
foundation for an objection OF this
hind, but it certainly does not exist
today with the most modern meth
DDS of manufacture adopted by the
beet sugar houses The sugar which
is used by the larger Gamers is made
without the ordinary blueing used IN
other sugars. There are two kinds of
blueing which have been used upon
sugar VIZ methyl blue and ultra
matter is undoubtedly open TO the OBJ
lection that in contact with certain
acids IT is either intensified in color.
or IL the color of the fruit Is yellow
II imparts a greenish tinge, both OF
which undesirable conditions were
experienced in the early days Of sugar
n-anutacture, Methy blue. however.
Is seldom used FOR this purpose to-
cay. untramarine blue being used in
stead. about pounds OF this materi-
0l being used for 100000 pounds ol
sugar. lr
The utter folly of this idea that
beet sugar cannot be used for canning
purposes is further emphasized by
the fact that practically all the sugar
used in Germany and France Tor the
purpose OF canning ana preserving is
from the beet, and for many years
American refined beet sugar was
used without complaint in this coun.
Try. because the mass of the people
were not aware that 1t was derived
from the beet 9ThiS sugar was
brought here as raw sugar from Eu-
lcpe. refined at American rcfinerieS,
and consumers purchased it under
the false idea that II was cane sug-
ar ut
But as this industry began To grow
lapidly in the United States attention
was directed to the source of the
sugar, and there has arisen this pop
u!ar error. which may have been
somewhat fostered by the interested
T2rtles
Extracted from report No 90. Unit
ed States department of agriculture
on the progress of the sugar beet
industry in the United States