Does sugar beet contain sugar?

[Sooty]

Referring to a couple of posts on here and another forum, I was under the impression that sugar beet had had most of the sugar extracted, and was the fibrous remains with a tiny percentage of sugar left. Personally I loathe the stuff, but is it very sugary?

 

[SSM]

Just tastes bland and gritty to me

Well I do have to taste test Princess Donkey's food

 

[eventergirl87]

your rite ...... its the by product of the suger industry so I just assumed it didnt have much sugar left in it.... hense why you get the molassesed ones??

 

[Sooty]

I didn't mean I loathe eating the stuff!

We had one horse on it but never again. Yuk!

 

[Sooty]

That makes sense - thanks.

 

[JACQSZOO]

As I understood it sugar beet is the by-product and has very little sugar left in it. Hence why they cover the stuff in mollasses to make it more pallatible. Speedi-beet is recommended for laminitics as it not mollassed.

 

[tanflislibs]

sugar beat is made from exactly the same plant, but the beat of the plant, not the grain.

 

[mitchellk]

Don't think sugarbeet has a 'grain'!?! The beet is processed in a factory and the sugarbeet that we know is a fiberous by-product. Generally it is the mollasses that they feed manufacturers add that determine the levels of sugar that are left, there are unmollassed versions available and i have never had a problem with them.

 

[spaniel]

Less than a normal bag of sugars worth in a big sack. Sorry to mix measurements but thats less than a pound of sugar per 15/20kg bag in the standard cubes.

It works out as less sugar weight for weight than standard grazing grass so its negligible.

 

[ruscara]

I am glad to see this, because I have seen a couple of instances of people stating that sugar beet has a high sugar content, when that is just not true.

 

[jayvee]

I imagine normal sugar beet contains a higher level of natural sugar than speedi beets natural level.
its the molasses in sugar beet that contains the majority of sugar. Speedi beet only has natural sugar and is not molassed, therefore minimal in sugar.

 

[dieseldog]

Sugar beet looks like a sweede or 'Beet'root, turnip type plant. A company I worked for developed a new type of sugar beet which didn't have a groove in the side. This saved them billions of pounds a year as they had to wash them less and had less mud to remove from the beets.

 

[spaniel]

Fascinating career DieselDog!!!!

 

[TGM]

Speedibeet is 5% sugar, molassed sugar beet is 21% sugar.