IN an earlier publication 1 the discovery was reported of a substance extractable by water from red beetroot and capable of inhibiting the active accumulation of manganese by slices of storage tissue.

Note: You can vary the vegetables in this creamy cream-free soup and play with the seasonings, too. A dollop of whole-milk yogurt can give it a silky body, if desired. The soup reheats beautifully; ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When the term “vulgaris” forms the second half of the given Latin name of a plant, as it very often does, we understandably might think it gives a negative ...

The finished beet salad, shown here, gets its lovely deep red color from natural pigments called betalains that are associated with heart health and may help guard against cancer. Red beets also ...

About that staining ... Although golden and Chioggia beets will not stain the way red beets do, my strategy for minimizing any mess can be found in the base recipe for roasting beets below. I find it ...

Beets are commonly grown for their bulbous roots, but their tops can also be harvested for greens, and they are an excellent source of Vitamin A as well as calcium. Beet juice is sometimes used in ...

Show of hands, whose favorite food is beets? Anyone? Maybe just the fictional Dwight Schrute on “The Office” then. You might think that beets have a weird texture or kind of taste like dirt, but here ...