Red Beet Benefits

When winter comes, colorful vegetables and fruits fill the stalls. Red beet is one of the most striking vegetables with its color. This vegetable, whose benefits are worth praising as much as its color, has many vitamins and minerals such as vitamin C, folate (vitamin B9), phosphate, manganese, potassium, calcium, selenium, iron. It is important to ensure the consumption of red beet, which is mostly consumed as pickles or in salads, especially for children. This vegetable, which comes from the chard and spinach family, is mostly consumed as cooked and pickled. The green part of the consumed beet consists of 87% water, 8% carbohydrates, 2-3% fiber. 136 grams of boiled red beets have less than 60 calories. It is known that 8 percent of the daily fiber needs of adults can be obtained from red beet.