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The beetroot (British English) or beet (North American English) is the taproot portion of a Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris plant in the Conditiva Group. [1] The plant is a root vegetable also known as the table beet, garden beet, dinner beet, or else categorized by color: red beet or golden beet. It is also a leaf vegetable called beet greens ...
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Beta vulgaris (beet) is a species of flowering plant in the subfamily Betoideae of the family Amaranthaceae.Economically, it is the most important crop of the large order Caryophyllales. [2]
Sugar beets grow exclusively in the temperate zone, in contrast to sugarcane, which grows exclusively in the tropical and subtropical zones. The average weight of a sugar beet ranges between 0.5 and 1 kg (1.1 and 2.2 lb). Sugar beet foliage has a rich, brilliant green color and grows to a height of about 35 cm (14 in).
In Ashkenazi European Jewish cooking, beetroot horseradish is commonly served with gefilte fish. In Transylvania and other Romanian regions, red beetroot with horseradish is used as a salad served with lamb dishes at Easter called sfecla cu hrean. In Serbia, ren is an essential condiment with cooked meat and freshly roasted suckling pig.
Root vegetables are underground plant parts used as vegetables.They are called root vegetables for lack of a better generic term, but include both true roots such as tuberous roots and taproots, as well as non-roots such as tubers, rhizomes, corms, bulbs, and hypocotyls
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Beet is a plant, the taproot portion of which is eaten as a vegetable, called beets or beetroot. ... 4026 Beet, an asteroid; Beet River, in Indonesia; See also