I wonder what it is like to live on a beetroot farm?
Seems interesting. Beetroot is the taproot portion of beets.
Oh that is interesting, can you eat them?
Yeah! They are known as table beets or even garden beets.
Oh, so these must be the kinds you see in salads, are there any other uses for them, besides food?
Well other than food they are also used as a food coloring.
How do they make it into a food coloring, that sounds complicated!
I'm not sure, probably taking the beets and grinding them down into food coloring.
Well that makes sense, have beets been around for a long time
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
Beetroot
The beetroot is the taproot portion of a beet plant, usually known in North America as the beet, and also known as the table beet, garden beet, sugar beet, red beet, or golden beet. It is one of several cultivated varieties of "Beta vulgaris" grown for their edible taproots and leaves (called beet greens); they have been classified as "B. vulgaris" subsp. "vulgaris" 'Conditiva' Group.
Besides being used as a food, beets have uses as a