How can red beets produce white sugar?

What makes red beets (not the kind commonly used for extracting sugar) red is a pigment called betalain which is eliminated in the refining of white sugar. read more

First, red beets do produce a liquid that would be vermilion, a deep red not unlike the banner above. Therefore, red beets would produce a similar color sugar if it was made from red beets. It would have to be bleached to make it white. read more

How to Make Beet Sugar. Not surprisingly, beet sugar is made from sugar beets. These aren’t the same as the red or white bulbous beets that you’ve eaten as a dinner side or with pickled eggs; sugar beets actually look more like a parsnip or daikon than they do their sister beets. read more

Ten pounds of sugar beets yields about 1 cup of sugar. Slice the beets into 1/4-inch-thick slices and rinse them under cool running water. Arrange the slices in an even layer on a plate lined with a couple of moist paper towels; then cover them with a couple more layers of moist paper towels. read more