Question

Sugar yielding part of Beta vulgaris is

• A. Leaf
• B. Shoot
• C. Root
• D. All the above

Answer 1

The correct option is C Root

Sugar beetroots are processed into white sugar, pulp and molasses for food, feed or industrial applications. A typical sugar beetroot consists of 75.9% water, 2.6% non-sugars, 18.0% sugar and 5.5% pulp. In the sugar fraction, 83.1% is recovered as crystalline sucrose, 12.5% is recovered as molasses.

So the correct option is C.