Can you eat beet skin raw

ByEmily Monaco

Much like Brussels sprouts or cauliflower, beets are one of those vegetables that has experienced a major resurgence — let's call it a glow-up — in recent years.

From the maligned root veggie of our youth, beets' "tastes like dirt" reputation has grown into an "earthiness" we can all love.

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But according to Encyclopedia Britannica, the magenta veggie is only one of four commonly cultivated kinds.

Another, Everyday Health explains, is the sugar beet, which first took root in what is now western Poland and has long been used to produce refined sugar.

In fact, the Smithsonian explains, following a German chemist's 18th-century discovery of a manufacturing method that allowed sugar beets to topple the sugarcane monopoly, beet sugar became ever more popular in the 19th century, when Napoleon decreed that the sugar beet be planted widely throughout France in order to combat a lack of sugar due to the British blocking France's trade routes with the Caribbean at the

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