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I love beets but have never had them raw. A salad is not a salad without beets.
I plan on growing some in the garden this summer so I'll try them raw. Should be interesting.
Growing up, the only way I was ever offered beets was boiled. To me, boiled beets smell bad and taste even worse. However, after I was introduced to roasted beets, I buy them as a special treat. I like putting just a tad of coconut oil on them and sea salt of course I think they're "pretty food" too with their intense oranges and reds.
For some reason, I myself appear to really like raw beets, such as these:
are you sure those are raw? Raw beets are usually not that dark in color and are very, very, hard. I can't imagine how anyone could eat them. those look more to me like pickled beets.
My bad--I meant to ask about marinated beets but mistakenly wrote "raw" instead of "marinated".
That picture appears to be accurate--these appear to be the type of beets which I ate yesterday.
ok, forget my earlier comment then. Yes, that is what they looked like to me. and I do absolutely love them, anyway; salads, plain, heated, or just out of the jar. I usually pickle or marinate several jars during beet season.
The earthy taste beet juice gives mixed juice was not one I particularly liked the first time I tried it. Oddly enough, though, I actually started craving it sometimes after that first time. They say your body craves what it needs so there may be some mineral or some other micronutrient I don't get enough of in beets.
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