sugar beet

"How do sugar beets become sugar? Follow each step--from planting sugar beets to sprinkling sugar on your cereal--in this ... book!"--Provided by publisher.

Explains how sugar is derived from sugar cane and beets and how it is processed into many usable forms.

Examines the process by which sugar is made, and describes where sugar cane is grown, how it has been harvested throughout history, the refining of sugar, and how it is used.