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!
Sugar beet
A sugar beet is a plant whose root contains a high concentration of sucrose and which is grown commercially for sugar production. In plant breeding it is known as the Altissima cultivar group of the common beet ("Beta vulgaris"). Together with other beet cultivars, such as beetroot and chard, it belongs to the subspecies "Beta vulgaris" subsp. "vulgaris." Its closest wild relative is the sea beet ("Beta vulgaris" subsp. "maritima").
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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