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This is a long and interesting read, from its domestication, through the Triangle Trade, to Sugar Beet extraction, to sugar substitutes

Edit: this was one of those Wikipedia holes, I don't remember where I started, I saw Alfred Russell Wallace (personal hero) mentioned somewhere and ended up here

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