beet
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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
Benali added that sugar beet, citrus and vegetable farms had also been devastated by flooding.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
In the U.S., at one time the world’s leader in the making of maple syrup, production plummeted in the 20th century as the country’s population became more urban, and cane and beet sugar less expensive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
Mr Hoyles, who is growing the olives alongside more conventional crops such as wheat, sugar beet, potatoes and peas said he had installed wind turbines and solar panels to improve energy self-sufficiency.
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2025
I thrashed next to Mother in the beet field.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
We experienced this firsthand at the Lighthouse Hotel, where the standard breakfast was a plate of shredded boiled beets piled high, which we dubbed “beet mountain.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 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
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
Sugar beets — root vegetables that contain high levels of sucrose — are used to produce more than half the sugar in the U.S., alongside sugar cane.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2025
Crops starting out as weeds included rye and oats, turnips and radishes, beets and leeks, and lettuce.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
