noun. A sweet-tasting crystalline alkaloid, C₅H₁₁NO₂, found in sugar beets and other plants, used to treat certain metabolic disorders, especially an enzyme defect that causes excessive levels of homocysteine in the blood and urine.

noun. Any of several alkaloids with similar structures.

noun. A nitrogenous base, C5H11NO2, produced artificially, and also occurring naturally in beet-root molasses and its residues, from which it is extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- called also lycine and oxyneurine. It has a sweetish taste.

noun. A sweet, crystalline compound (not an alkaloid), trimethylammoniumacetate, found in sugar beet and similar plants, sometimes used to treat muscular degeneracy; the zwitterion (CH3)3N+CH2COO-

noun. Any derivative of this compound.

noun. Any similar compound, based on sulfur or phosphorus etc, having an onium ion with no hydrogen atom adjacent to the anionic atom.

noun. a sweet tasting alkaloid that occurs in sugar beets

"Oxalic acid, betacyanins, alkaloids such as betaine, cyanogenic compounds, saponins, sesquiterpenes, and polyphenols all have been reported present in various species."

polybetaine  sulfobetaine  

alkaloid  

adenine  biotin  cadinene  diazonium  glutamine  

lycine  oxyneurine