It's not surprising that in the garden, the beet creeps of the water spirit lie for at least 3,000 years at the table from ancient greek rome, the leaves are cold, the root broths taste like sweet silk。
But there's no one to think deep: can you sneak out and become the sugar we eat every day? Europeans look for sugar in the world, sweet sugar cane from asia to the americas, and the beet is buried in their backyards as a common vegetable。
It's not blind, it's the window paper, it's thick like a wall, and it's only when the war is over, the pockets are so poor, the smart people are so desperate to get into the room, they're just gonna have to do it。
This beet, it's sweet, it's hidden deep. Not like sugar cane. Cut it down and chew it. Sweet juice goes straight to the head。
The sugar of beet is mainly in that fat root, but it's like radish, and it's mixed with a lot of other things, and it smells heavy。
Earlier, the process had been more difficult to get sugar out of the creeps than to extract oil from stones. You can't get a sugar cane out of your mouth
So the ancients taste it, they know it's sweet, and they stop at "it tastes good." the noble lords of europe are waiting for the expensive sugar cane that comes from miles away。
It's been a long time since i got here. In the middle of the 18th century, there was a german chemist named maglav, a real man。
In 1747, he appeared to have been able to produce white sugar from the root of beets in an experiment and to have sent a paper proving that sugar and sugar cane in beets were chemically identical brothers。
But then it was like a little stone thrown into the sea, and it didn't stir up much water. Why? Technology is premature and too costly to calculate。
The real "back to the door" was for emperor napoleon to kick out. Napoleon died on the european continent in the early nineteenth century, the royal navy locked the sea, the sugar cane was out of reach, france and the whole continent were running out of sugar and had to scratch their liver。
Napoleon looks at it, it's no good. No sugar, it's a big deal. He was reminded of the report by maglav, who immediately ordered the allocation of large sums of money, the allocation of land and the country's intense research and promotion of sugar beet making。
It's like fighting for food, and suddenly it turns out that the wasteland of its home actually breeds high-yielding new rice, and that's what we have to do。
There must be a strong man with a reward, and money and the earth will be crushed, and the technology will be eaten down. In particular, in 1811 napoleon issued a well-known decree to fully support the beet sugar industry。
French engineers have improved their extraction and crystallization processes, which have finally resulted in the production of beet sugar. Although napoleon later lost his battle, the beet he planted left behind and took root in the european continent。
By the middle of the nineteenth century, sugar beet-making technology had matured, factories had flourished and europeans had finally achieved “freedom to eat sugar” and no longer had to look at the face of the ocean master。
From maglav's first scientific confirmation in 1747 to napoleon's efforts to promote industrialization at the beginning of the nineteenth century, 50 or 60 years later. What does that mean? There's not enough sparks of science alone, and there's a real need to light them, and there's a technology to keep them burning。
It's not surprising that beet's 3,000-year-old vegetable experience. It's like a man with a skillful style who's been cooking in the kitchen until one day when the inn is short of masters and people are starving and backs, he's out there showing the world's horrors。
