Crops grown chiefly for their sugar content: sugarcane and sugar beet, the two commercial sugar sources this atlas carries. Belongs here: a crop whose primary commercial product is extracted sugar. Does not belong here: a fruit or vegetable that happens to be sweet but is not grown or processed as a sugar source, such as watermelon, held under Vegetables and Melons.
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1. Wikipedia: Sugar beet
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A sugar beet is a plant whose root contains a high concentration of sucrose and is grown commercially for sugar production.
2. Wikipedia: Sugarcane
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stout, jointed, fibrous stalks that are rich in sucrose, which accumulates in the stalk internodes
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