Lining the shelves of the bakery aisle in your local grocery store are bags upon bags of sugar. Whether it’s brown sugar, granulated sugar, or powdered sugar, the sweet stuff is a vital part of baking ...

• While sugar cane accounts for half of the sugar produced in the U.S. each year, the other half comes from sugar beets, white root vegetables that weigh two to five pounds each. • California’s ...

Every summer, students attending the annual McGinnis Institute of Beet Sugar Technology Beet End and Sugar End schools learn about a wide variety of topics from pulp pressing and drying to lime and ...