Figure 1: White sugar: sugar beet

1	–	Crown of the beet, which bears the leaves (usually trimmed off together with the leaves during harvest; sucrose content only 0.3%).
2	–	Neck of the beet, which bears no leaves and usually no roots and forms the transition to the main body of the beet; sucrose content 2.7%.
3	–	Main body of the root (hypocotyl), storage tissue containing 97% sucrose
4	–	Beet tail, which usually breaks off during harvest.