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Nature's way of making you panic about internal bleeding, then salad.
means A deep-red root vegetable, the swollen taproot of the beet plant, eaten boiled, pickled, or roasted.
from From 'beet' — going back to Old English 'bete', itself from Latin 'beta', the plant's ancient name — plus 'root', added to distinguish the underground part people actually eat from the leafy beet greens above. 'Beetroot' as one word is the chiefly British habit; elsewhere people just say 'beet' and leave the root implied.
- pigment behavior
- turns urine pink in some people, harmlessly
- sugar source
- grown commercially just to make table sugar
- ancient use
- romans prized the leaves, ignored the root
- athletic edge
- nitrates in juice measurably boost stamina