Sugar beet

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Due to a few concerning posts recently, please allow me to clear this up for anyone who is not sure. The sugar beet that we feed our horses is NOT high in sugar. The clue is NOT in the name. Sugar beet is so named because it is a root vegetable grown and processed to remove the sugar for human consumption. The part of the vegetable which is not sugar is mainly fibre and it is this byproduct of the sugar industry which is pulped and dried and sold to us to feed our horses. It has had most of the sugar removed, and is therefore LOW in sugar (unless mollasses is added, so check the label).

Ergo, feeding sugar beet does not equal feeding a high sugar diet. Nor does feeding it equal laminitis or metabolic problems.

That is all.
 
Who was telling you different? People really should fact check before having a go at people. I hate that I have to feed speedie beet, but there isn't a feed place around that doesn't carry beet pulp without molasses. Frustrating. My neighbor next store makes a mixture of the mollassed beet, horse and pony mix, covered in molasses alfalfa a, and never seems to have an issue. Although she has a lot of ponies in sweet itch rugs. How and ever they all seem fine. If I fed that mix the vet would be out the next day treating them all for lami. Oh and they get like 10-15 carrots a day! Not a lie. I split 2 tiny carrots between 7 horses at 9pm and feel I'm pushing my luck!

Terri
 
I would have thought the fact that Speedibeet has a big sticker on it saying 'Laminitus Trust Approved' would be a clue as to the level of sugar or otherwise.
I'm sure there are brands that have lots of mollasses adn brands that are sugar free, just like saying all sweets are bad it's too broad a statement.
 
Terri nobody has tried to tell me any differently but I have seen a few posts by different users recently advising that sugar beet = high in sugar. It will just be an error and they are trying to be helpful in their posts, but the well meaning advice is turning out to be the opposite of reality :o
 
The 'normal' molassed variety we get round here is 1% starch and 20% sugar :eek:

You can make it 'safe' by rinsing it until the water runs clear....but I can't be bothered with that and just get the Speedibeet instead :o.
 
Polos Mum said:
I would have thought the fact that Speedibeet has a big sticker on it saying 'Laminitus Trust Approved' would be a clue as to the level of sugar or otherwise.
I'm sure there are brands that have lots of mollasses adn brands that are sugar free, just like saying all sweets are bad it's too broad a statement.
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If anyone wanted to know about the laminitis trust badge, here it is:

http://www.laminitis.org/approval.html
 
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