Journal of the science of food and agriculture
Effects of biotic and abiotic factors on ethanol concentration in stored sugarbeet roots.
Mercedes Morin, John D Eide, Malick Bill, Fernando L Finger, Shyam L Kandel, Melvin D Bolton, Karen K Fugate
Published: 202510.1002/jsfa.70264
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Ethanol is a common contaminant in sugarbeet factories that is believed to be produced by fermentation of sucrose by microbes present in the factory. Ethanol, however, may also enter factory processing streams as a contaminant in delivere…
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