Long petioles, crinkled and uneven above, with stout projecting veins below, entire or slightly undulate, stout petioles, stem leaves alternate and smaller, flower clusters, perianth lobes barred or narrowly moment-rounded, utricles slightly fleshy distally. It should be called beet. As shown:
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Beet (scientific name: Beta vulgaris L.) is a biennial herb of the family Quinoa, genus Beet, with conical to fusiform, succulent roots. Stem erect, basal leaves rectangular, long petiolate, crumpled unevenly above, with stout projecting veins below, entire or slightly undulate, petiole stout, stem leaves alternate, smaller, flower clusters, perianth lobes barred or narrowly rectangular, utricle slightly fleshy in the upper part. Seeds biconvex mirror-shaped, reddish brown, flowering in May-June, fruiting in July.
Native to the western and southern coasts of Europe, transplanted from Sweden to Spain, this species is widely cultivated and highly variable, being divided into a number of subspecies, varieties and variants.
It is a major source of sugar other than sugarcane. Vegetable beets are commonly cooked or pickled in the United States, and Russian beet gumbo is a traditional beet soup in Eastern Europe. Sugar beets are the most important type commercially, and forage and leaf beets are cultivated as are most crops.
Economic value: Sugar beet is a biennial crop used as a raw material for sugar production. Sugar beets are full of treasures. The main product of sugar beet is sugar. Sugar is an indispensable nutrient for people's lives, but also the food industry, beverage industry and pharmaceutical industry is an important raw material. In addition to the production of cane sugar, sugar beet and its by-products have a wide range of prospects for development and utilization.
Eating value: beet is easy to digest, help improve appetite, but also can relieve headaches, beet and prevent colds and anemia. Cold beet process is simple, the beet peeled and cut strips can be freely seasoned. Beet juice is rich in nitrite substances, which have the effect of lowering blood pressure and preventing Alzheimer's disease. In addition, sugar beet through the osmosis method of sugar extraction and clarification with carbonic acid method, can directly produce white sugar, but not the production of raw sugar.
Beetroot also contains iodine content, on the prevention of goiter as well as the prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis have certain therapeutic effects. Beet tubers and leaves contain a betaine component, is not found in other vegetables, it has and choline, lecithin biochemical pharmacological function, is an effective regulator of metabolism, can accelerate the body's absorption of protein to improve the function of the liver. Beet also contains a saponin-like substances, it has the intestinal cholesterol combined into an unabsorbable mixture of substances and discharge.
Beetroot also contains a considerable amount of magnesium, there are regulating the softening of the hardening of blood vessels and prevent the formation of blood clots in the blood vessels, the treatment of hypertension has an important role. Beet also contains a large amount of cellulose and pectin components, according to research found to have an anti-gastric ulcer disease factor function. In medical practice there are also diarrhea function can eliminate excessive water in the abdomen, relieve bloating. Because it contains iron, copper, manganese and other elements, can also treat anemia and style and other diseases.
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