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The Beet Goes On

Grown primarily for livestock food and sugar processing, only a small percentage of beets make it to the dinner table. Nevertheless, beets are enjoying a comeback! Beets are completely edible from top to bottom, and they're packed with nutritional value. Most people are familiar with canned beets, which are generally red. Beets are available in a wide variety of colors, ranging from dark burgundy to light gold. Beets are easy to grow, and can be started from seed. The flavor of home-grown beets will be a treat to anyone who has only experienced the canned variety. Try them raw, chopped in a fresh garden salad, or added to your favorite fresh vegetable juice blend.

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Beet (Beta Vulgaris)

A Few Facts Courtesy of Wikipedia

The beet (Beta vulgaris) is a plant in the beet root family. It is best known its numerous cultivated varieties, the most well known of which is probably the red root vegetable known as the garden beet. However, other cultivated varieties include the leaf vegetables chard and spinach beet, as well as the root vegetables sugar beet, which is important in the production of table sugar, and mangelwurzel, which is a fodder crop.

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Pink Pickled Eggs Recipe

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Chocolate Beet Brownies

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Hot Beet Borscht (Can Also Be Served Cold)

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Beet Pasta Recipe

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Beet Wine Recipes

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Recipe for Gallbladder Health: Walnut and Beet Salad

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Chilled Yellow Beet Soup « The Endive Chronicles

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Beets for your Gallbladder and Gallstones | Gallbladder Help

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NYThroughTheLens Apr 17, 2011 @ 9:30 pm | delete

I absolutely love beets. Great lens.

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ajgodinho Sep 30, 2010 @ 10:21 pm | delete

I've always loved beets. I didn't know that beets were primarily used for livestock food and sugar processing. I did learn something new...thank you! :)

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annmackiemiller Sep 17, 2010 @ 2:51 am | delete

I love beets and now I am adding your lens to Hortence Alphabet Soup

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bdkz Sep 10, 2010 @ 2:32 pm | delete

My whole family loves beets!

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paperfacets Sep 10, 2010 @ 2:20 pm | delete

I hate beets but they are a pretty color. Is not there a town in California just for beets? Your newly discovered food lenses (by me) are very well done.
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