- While the nutritional benefits of eating beets are many, do you know that beetroot juice can also help fight off garlic breath?
- Soviet soldiers would prank American soldiers by giving them beet soup labeled as Vodka. The act was meant as a sign of friendship and to increase camaraderie.
ParentRap/Pixabay. Albert Einstein famously hated beetroots.
- The Nobel prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein hated beetroots.
- In Ancient Rome, beetroot was considered an aphrodisiac. Accroding to altest research, beets absorb and can store high quantities of boron, a substance responsible for the production of human sex hormones.
- An effective remedy for dandruff is to boil beetroots and use the boiled water as a hair rinse after it has cooled off.
- Beet water has also been used historically by the 19th century Victorian English women to dye their hair to give them a tinge of red.
- According to ancient Assyrian literature, beetroots were grown in the famous Hanging Gardens of Babylon in 800 BC.
- Beetroots were a revered food item among ancient Greeks and were used to treat a number of diseases, like toothache, constipation, headache, skin problems, and wounds. In fact, it was such an esteemed food that the Greeks would present it as an offering to their god Apollo.
congerdesign/Pixabay. Beet juice is great for detox.
- Beetroot juice is a great detox drink that helps cleanse the liver. Therefore it is an effective cure for hangovers.
- The Romans were the first to use beetroot as a vegetable. In the years past, the Greeks had utilized it only for its medicinal benefits and did not consume it as food.
- The early American settlers used beetroot to give their cake frostings a pink color.
- The wine obtained from beets tastes like port.
- According to a popular ancient myth, if a man and woman eat from the same beet, they might fall in love.
Kelsey Knight/Unsplash. WIne obtained from beets tastes like port.
- Beets are some of the sweetest vegetables. In fact, they have the highest sugar content among most vegetables.
- Beet juice can help identify the acidity of a solution. If beet juice is added to a solution and its color turns pink, then it is high in acidity. If the color of the solution turns yellow, the solution is said to be alkaline.
- The most commonly grown beets in the United States are of a specific type called the Red Ace.
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