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IainC

Beetroot may help lower blood pressure

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7228420.stm


Root vegetable, and potential lifesaver?
Drinking 500ml of beetroot juice a day can significantly reduce blood pressure, UK research suggests.

While it took less than an hour to note a reduction in blood pressure in the beetroot juice tests, it was more pronounced after three to four hours and a degree of reduction continued to be observed for up to 24 hours, the report published on the online journal Hypertension said.
zombiecazz

ooh that sounds interesting.
I'm forwarding it to my Dad who has BP issues ( wel.l he is 82). He always like to look at foods that can help him maintain a health life
Ina

When a friend of mine was diagnosed with cancer last year, she was recommended to eat a lot of beetroot. She did; and although she now has had enough of beetroot for a while, she is well and happy! I'm sure it's a very healthy vegetable, not just for blood pressure.
kimmie

good for cometics too...the bodyshop used it originally in their lip and cheek stain...my mum said she did the same when she was young....
heres a bit of history for you
Quote:
Early Beetroot
Beetroot evolved from wild seabeet, which is a native of coastlines from India to Britain and is the ancestor of all cultivated forms of beet.

Sea beet was first domesticated in the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East – although it was only the leaves that were eaten at that time. The root was carrot-shaped and the Romans were, at first, mainly interested in it as a medicine. The first recipes for preparing the roots appeared in the third century AD and were mainly for curative broth used to treat fevers and other ailments.

Apicus, the renowned Roman gourmet, included recipes for broths and adventurous culinary dishes in his book ‘The Art of Cooking’.

The rounded root shape that we’re familiar with today wasn’t developed until the sixteenth century and became widely popular in Central and Eastern Europe a couple of hundred years later. Many of the classic beetroot dishes originated in this region, including the most famous beetroot soup, known as borsch.

Beetroot today
After World War II pickled beetroot in jars was the most widely available form, but the vinegars could be strong and harsh - enough to put many people off beetroot for life! More recently smaller, more tender ‘baby’ summer-grown beetroots have been developed and in recent years Shropshire’s have introduced a range of milder vinegars in which we dip the freshly cooked vegetable - effectively to preserve its freshness for just a few days, without overpowering the subtle beetroot flavour. This is the way the product has been prepared in kitchens and enjoyed for generations.
Diana

Tricky for diabetics though I would have thought as it's high in natural sugars
baldowrie

also for those that have a intolerance to them, like me.

Anyway it will be something elsed next week!
wildgarlic

Didn't realise that people could have beetroot intolerance - that's what I like about this site, you learn something every day.

I absolutely LOVE beetroot and am hoping that they've got some at the farmers' market in Inverurie on Saturday.

If anyone has grown beetroot and has some to sell/swap then please let me know.
kimmie

i did leave some on the swap table but someone 'beat' you to it WG.....and too much of it can make you sit on the loo for a long time!!! LOL
baldowrie

Quote:
I absolutely LOVE beetroot


So do I
wildgarlic

awwww that's a shame Baldowrie.

Kimmie... I want it raw.... not pickled.... (tho that is scrummy too) - I just LOVE beetroot curry!!
lor138

wildgarlic wrote:
awwww that's a shame Baldowrie.

Kimmie... I want it raw.... not pickled.... (tho that is scrummy too) - I just LOVE beetroot curry!!


Ooohhh, Beetroot curry. Sounds good.
DiddleDeDum

So - just how do you squeeze a beeroot? :oops:  :oops:
IainC

DiddleDeDum wrote:
So - just how do you squeeze a beeroot? :oops:  :oops:


I dunno... was imagining it needing to just be chucked in a food processor type thing and mangled to bits?
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