beet
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Proponents say French sugar beet, apple and hazelnut farmers need the insecticides -- forbidden in France since 2018 and 2019, respectively -- to help them compete with their European counterparts.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
We head to outdoor restaurants where no one is present and the eager wait staff want to feed her bacon and me, my beet salad.
From Salon ● May 9, 2026
Next month, she said, organizers plan to honor the Japanese-Mexican Labor Assn., a union formed by sugar beet workers in 1903 that conducted a 48-day farmworker strike 123 years ago, long before Chavez.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
In the U.S., at one time the world’s leader in the making of maple syrup, production plummeted in the 20th century as the country’s population became more urban, and cane and beet sugar less expensive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
Kelly danced around George, singing the name Melissa until George giggled and turned beet red.
From "George" by Alex Gino
Mars researchers figured out how to deliver convincing replicas of its red, orange and yellow candies using natural ingredients like beets and turmeric.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
They’re vegetarians: They eat grass, alfalfa, cassava, sweet potato, carrots, beets, and, at the zoo, a commercial feed.
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
Betaine is a small molecule found in foods like beets and spinach, but the body also makes it on its own.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2025
Sugar beets — root vegetables that contain high levels of sucrose — are used to produce more than half the sugar in the U.S., alongside sugar cane.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2025
Grandma took a quart Mason jar of her beets, and we three got in on that.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
