beets

     

Beta vulgaris, commonly known as beet or beetroot, is a flowering plant species in the family Chenopoiaceae. Several cultivars are valued around the world as edible root vegetables, fodder (mangel) and sugar-producing sugar beet.

Trivia about beets

  • Fannie makes a relish from these dark red root vegetables, horseradish, lemon juice, sugar & salt
  • Whether you like it hot or cold, borscht is a Russian soup made from these root vegetables
  • New Englanders know that these vegetables put the red in red flannel hash
  • Baby borscht, a fad in the fifties, was made from baby food--specifically, the strained type of these red veggies
  • A favorite in New England, red flannel hash gets its color from these red veggies
  • Add this vegetable to corned beef hash & it becomes red flannel hash
  • They make up the genus Beta
  • The betacyanin that makes these veggies red may also help fight cancer
  • These veggies, often garnet red, have the highest sugar content of any vegetable, but are very low in calories
  • The Chioggia type of this round root vegetable has concentric circles of red & white
  • They're the red in red flannel hash
  • Used as fodder, mangold is a type of this purplish root vegetable