If you aren’t beeting up your diet, it’s high time you start. Whether you’re in your 20s, 30s, or 40s, consuming beets regularly will do wonders for your body – even help it to lower blood pressure and fight cancer. Beets are a powerful vegetable packing tons of nutrients including B vitamins, iron, fiber, folic acid, manganese, copper, magnesium and potassium. No wonder the National Institutes of Health considers it to be a disease-preventing functional food.
When Are They In Season?
You can probably grab beets at your local grocery store year-round. However, they are most likely in season June through October. Although most people know about the ruby red beets, there are other varieties as well.
How To Eat Them
This beautiful red, yet deliciously sweet veggie can be incorporated into your diet in plenty of ways:
- Grilled
- Broiled
- Raw
- Cooked
- Shredded
- Roasted
- In a salad
- In a smoothie
- In a soup
If you aren’t convinced of the benefits of beets yet, here are a few other good reasons to start eating them regularly:
- They will help keep your blood pressure low.
- Their phytonutrient betalains, have a chemopreventive effect in human pancreatic, breast, and prostate cancers.
- Those same betalains have detoxification powers good for purifying the blood and liver.
- Drink it as a juice to improve endurance.
- Improve eye-sight with the nutrients contained in beets like carotenoids, lutein and beta-carotene.
Start beeting up your diet today!
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