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beet

[beet] / bit /
NOUN
vegetable
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We head to outdoor restaurants where no one is present and the eager wait staff want to feed her bacon and me, my beet salad.

From Salon May 9, 2026

Food companies started replacing it with cane or beet sugar more than a decade ago.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 14, 2026

"Once upon a time potatoes and sugar beet weren't grown here and now they're one of the main crops in the area," said Sarah-Jane Taylor.

From Barron's Oct. 31, 2025

The rice field is surrounded by potato, onion and beet crops, which are still the thriving staples here.

From BBC Sep. 27, 2025

But after that I beet him 8 more times.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

Researchers figured out how to make convincing replicas of its red, orange and yellow candies using natural ingredients like beets and turmeric.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 18, 2026

They’re vegetarians: They eat grass, alfalfa, cassava, sweet potato, carrots, beets, and, at the zoo, a commercial feed.

From Slate May 27, 2026

Abatti owns a large farming operation in the Imperial Valley, growing crops including sugar beets, alfalfa and melons.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 23, 2025

Betaine is a small molecule found in foods like beets and spinach, but the body also makes it on its own.

From Science Daily Nov. 13, 2025

By 1814, there were more than three hundred factories in France alone, turning beets into sugar.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson




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