Beets are so delicious, and they're also a great food coloring and medicinal plant!
I've never tried beets before.
Oh man, they really are delicious. Especially the sugar beet! I could eat those all day!
Sugar beets sounds really appetizing!
My lifelong dream is to try the sugar beet's closest wild relative, the Sea Beet. Then I can die a happy woman.
The sea beet? That sounds like such a interesting food to try.
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The sea beet is the wild ancestor of common vegetables such as beetroot, sugar beet, and Swiss chard. Its leaves have a pleasant texture and taste when served raw or cooked, and because of this, it is also known as wild spinach.
It is a perennial plant which grows up to 1.2 m, and flowers in the summer. Its flowers are hermaphroditic, and wind-pollinated. It requires moist, well-drained soils, and does not tolerate shade. However, it is able to
food colouring and as a medicinal plant. Many beet products are made from other "Beta vulgaris" varieties, particularly sugar beet.
Etymology.
"Beta" is the ancient Latin name for beets, possibly of Celtic origin, becoming "bete" in Old English around 1400. "Root" derives from the late Old English "rōt", itself from Old Norse "rót".
History.
From the Middle Ages, beetroot was used as a treatment for a variety of conditions, especially illnesses relating