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Not really. Some people even claim that cane is healthier than beet sugar. By the time they are fully refined into the white granular material that you see bagged in the marketplace, neither is anything more than just sucrose with all of the possibly healthy components removed.ome people even claim that cane is healthier than beet sugar. By the time they are fully refined into the white granular material that you see bagged in the marketplace, neither is anything more than just sucrose with all of the possibly healthy components removed.
The labels of most brands of sugars on supermarket shelves neglect to say whether what's inside is cane or beet. In some brands, the contents can vary from day to day. The Chronicle tested and blind-tasted creme brulee, cookies and cakes made with beet and cane sugar and found that indeed there is a difference.rown sugar from C & H Sugar Co. and other cane refiners uses the process, but beet sugar is different. It's made by refining the sugar all the way to the final white granular stage, stripping off all the molasses because beet molasses is unfit for human consumption (it's recycled as cattle feed).