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• Beets are a deep purple root vegetables used in salads, pickled, boiled, steamed, or roasted. In Australia and New Zealand, beets are commonly put on burgers.

• Fast Facts

  1. A flowering plant
  2. edible root vegetable
  3. 35% daily value of folate in one cup
  4. Places 1st cultivated: Mediterranean, Middle East
  5. Many medicinal uses
  6. Used for decorative purposes

• Scientific Classification

  1. Kingdom: Plantae
  2. Division: Magnoliophyta
  3. Class: Magnoliopsida
  4. Order: Caryophyllales
  5. Family: Chenopodiaceae
  6. Genus: Beta
  7. Species: Beta vulgaris

• Nutritional Benefits

  Beets contain many nutrients, including folate, manganese, magnesium, potassium, fiber, vitamin C, tryptophan, iron, phosphorus, and copper. At the same time, they have a low calorie content, making beets very nutrient dense.

• Color

  They have a purple juice that will stain clothes and skin. When eaten the color may show up in the urine.

• Sugar Beets

  The sugar beet is a beet with a high sugar content, grown commercially for sugar.

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  Carrots | Celery | Potatoes | Cheese | Sugar | Onions | Turnips | Swiss Chard | Roasting

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