Red Beet Is Not Sweet--White Is Right

Re “Clipboard Neighborhood Profile: North Los Alamitos” (March 29): “Fat, red, bulbous” beets may make good borscht, but they are not grown and harvested for their sugar content. As Mr. (Jimmy) Lopez or any good dictionary could have informed the author of this piece, sugar beets are white--just like refined sugar.

EDITH L. McCULLOUGH, Placentia