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Definition: beet from Philip's Encyclopedia

Vegetable native to Europe and parts of Asia, and cultivated in most cool regions. Its leaves are green or red and edible, though it is generally grown for its thick red or golden root. Some varieties are eaten as a vegetable, others are a source of sugar, and some are used as fodder. Family Chenopodiaceae; species Beta vulgaris. See also sugar beet

beet

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
biennial or annual root vegetable of the family Chenopodiaceae ( goosefoot family). The beet ( Beta vulgaris ) has been cultivated since pre-Christian times. Among its numerous varieties are the red, or garden, beet, the sugar beet, Swiss chard, and several types of mangel-wurzel and other stock feeds. Both the roots and the foliage of the red beet are edible, as is the foliage of Swiss chard and similar varieties. The easily stored roots of the mangel-wurzel [Ger.,=beet root] are much used for fodder in Europe and Canada and to a lesser extent in the United States. The biennial beet is often used in crop rotation. The foliage of the sugar beet and several other varieties is also used as feed. The sugar beet, cultivated commercially throughout the temperate zone, to which it is well adapted, provides about one third of the world's commercial sugar production; virtually all the rest comes from sugarcane . In the United States, sugar beets are grown extensively from Michigan to Idaho and…
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From The Deluxe Food Lover's Companion
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Commonly known as the garden beet , this firm, round root vegetable has leafy green tops, which are also edible and highly nutritious. The most common color for beets (called “beetroots” in the British Isles) is a garnet red. However, they can range in color from deep red to white, the most…
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From Library of Health and Living: The Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Good Health
Common Beet The beet is a root vegetable grown...
Also known as: garden beet A red root vegetable related to chard . Beets may be cultivated for their tops in addition to their roots. Common varieties include Crosby's Egyptian, Ruby Queen, and Detroit Dark Red. Red beetroot is a food coloring agent. Beets in general have the highest sugar content…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
biennial or annual root vegetable of the family Chenopodiaceae ( goosefoot family). The beet ( Beta vulgaris ) has been cultivated since pre-Christian times. Among its numerous varieties are the red, or garden, beet, the sugar beet, Swiss chard, and several types of mangel-wurzel and other stock…
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Full text Article sugar beet

From The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets
A worker shovels beets at a sugar beet plant in...
( Beta vulgaris ), which, unlike sugarcane, thrives in temperate climates, has since the mid-nineteenth century been a commercially important alternative source of sucrose. At the time, it was an especially important source for northern nations lacking tropical colonies, or for those unwilling to…
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Full text Article HARVARD BEETS

From Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink
A dish of beets cooked in vinegar, sugar, and cornstarch. The name probably comes from the deep crimson color of the cooked beets, similar to the color of the Harvard University football team's jerseys. The dish is more than fifty years old, but its origins are still unknown. A 1982 letter to the…
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Full text Article BEETS, NICOLAAS 1814-1903

From Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850
The vogue for Byronism that swept the Netherlands in the 1830s and 1840s was to be a crucial source of inspiration for the young student Beets, one of the most enthusiastic of the Lord Byron imitators in the Netherlands. Such was his veneration that he described Byron as “de zon der hedendaagse…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Beet (Beta). Credit:Grant Heilman/EB Inc.
Cultivated form of the plant Beta vulgaris of the goosefoot family (Chenopodiaceae), one of the most important vegetable s. Four distinct types are cultivated: the garden beet, as a garden vegetable; the sugar beet , a major source of sugar and commercially the most important type; the…
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Full text Article Sugarcane and Sugar Beets

From The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor, and Economic History
The temperate climate of the United States always had presented a barrier to the production of sugar, a barrier that was not overcome until the development in the late nineteenth century of advanced techniques that allowed sugar to be extracted from beets. Through industrial-scale processing, the…
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Full text Article Beets, Betty Lou

From Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment in the United States
Beets, Betty Lou
Betty Lou Beets was born on March 12, 1937. By the time Betty Lou was forty-seven years old, she had been married five times. On August 6, 1983, a boat belonging to Betty Lou's fifth husband, Jimmy Beets, was found drifting empty on Texas's Cedar Creek Lake. The boat was retrieved by strangers in…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris). Credit:Grant...
Variety of beet ( Beta vulgaris ) that accounts for about two-fifths of global sugar production, making it second only to sugarcane as a source of the world’s sugar. Unlike sugarcane, sugar beets can be grown in temperate or cold climates in Europe, North America, and Asia; that is, within the…
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