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Albert Graham,
Backyard Pool Drainer
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Beets are rich in complex carbohydrates -- natural starch and sugars, as well as some indigestible food fibers.
The body uses sugar from sugar cane and sugar beets in the same way as the sugars in fruit and vegetables.
Sugar beets are tubular in shape and have a large white root that grows to 12 inches and at maturity weighs about 2 pounds.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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The sugar beets are washed, sliced and soaked in hot water to remove the sugar-containing juice.
The sugar beets are washed, sliced and soaked in hot water to separate the sugar-containing juice from the beet fiber.
Sugar beets grown under a sugar beet processor contract and planted for harvest as sugar beets.
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Billie Kirgan,
Machinist
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Oxnard agreed that sugar beets would grow well on the fertile plain.
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Astrid Schuhmann,
Backpacker
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He was one of the first in the area to grow sugar beets and employ German Russian laborers.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Sugar beets are processed in 30 factories that are located in the producing regions.
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Phuong Nguyen,
Exotic Dancer
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Sugar beets have been grown in Alberta since 1903 and Rogers Sugar has been producing beet sugar in Alberta since 1931.
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Zhang Xian Qian,
Ex-Olympic Swimmer
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Most sugar beets come from the European Union, China, Thailand and Australia.
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Abu Kashir,
Gas Station Attendant
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Cranes were used to create huge mountains of sugar beets in fields near the factory.
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