Feeding Beet Sugar

[simonforeman]

I have mistakenly bought a load of Beet Sugar and fed to bees... I normally only buy cane sugar

Question, Is beet sugar ok to use for winter feeding?
I have read somewhere that it's not as good for them but this could be a myth

 

[Erichalfbee]

Beet/Cane its all the same
If you buy beet at least you are supporting UK farmers

 

[Beefriendly]

Yup, you guessed it a total myth.
It's fine to feed bees with.
Sucrose is sucrose is sucrose regardless of how it is extracted.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

sugar is sugar - no difference between cane and beet. It was just protectionist propaganda spread by the slave labour sugarcane producers after the second world war.

 

[Erichalfbee]

The idea comes from the fact that Beet is GM in the USA and I think there is an authorisation already for a Monsanto owned Beet in the EU.
There ain't no DNA in sucrose but I suppose there might be residues of glyphosate. That might be a problem if glyphosate bothers you

 

[masterBK]

I seem to remember from Uni ( a long long time ago in my case) that although biochemically the sucrose from C3 (eg sugar beet) and C4 plants (eg sugar cane) is fundamentally the same there are differences in the isotopic ratio between Carbon 12 and Carbon 13 between the sucrose from these two groups of plants . These differences are not important to the bees but can be used to identify "fake honey" watered down with corn syrup.

 

[Gilberdyke John]

I have mistakenly bought a load of Beet Sugar and fed to bees... I normally only buy cane sugar

Question, Is beet sugar ok to use for winter feeding?
I have read somewhere that it's not as good for them but this could be a myth

Sucrose is sucrose is sucrose.

 

[linoleum bonypart]

Buy the cheapest you can anyone better 50p a kg this year

 

[Hivemaker.]

can anyone better 50p a kg this year

Yes, 39p

 

[linoleum bonypart]

OK but you are buying two tonnes I guess

 

[Curly green fingers]

Most of the sugar in this country these days is beet anyway. Mainly because it's cheaper to produce.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....erence-between-cane-and-beet-sugar?_amp_[/url

 

[victor meldrew]

I seem to remember from Uni ( a long long time ago in my case) that although biochemically the sucrose from C3 (eg sugar beet) and C4 plants (eg sugar cane) is fundamentally the same there are differences in the isotopic ratio between Carbon 12 and Carbon 13 between the sucrose from these two groups of plants . These differences are not important to the bees but can be used to identify "fake honey" watered down with corn syrup.

There was talk of beet sugar processing using an iffy chemical which has been discontinued quite a long time ago ?


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[Hedgerow Honey]

39p is the same as mine, but I buy 1/2 ton's.

 

[For want of a better word]

There was talk of beet sugar processing using an iffy chemical which has been discontinued quite a long time ago ?


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