I love beetroot, they're so tasty and they were even used a treatment for some ailments in the Middle Ages!
What's beetroot?
It's the taproot portion of the beet plant, the red part that you commonly associate with beets. Beetroot is just the anatomically correct term for it.
Oh I see. Okay. What ailments was it used to treat?
One remedy was for "garlic-breath" lol apparently they thought if you ate it with garlic dishes it will cancel out the smell.
Haha. what else is beetroot used for?
Since it has a deep red color it's used these days as a natural food colouring.
Interesting. I wonder what foods its used in for that coloring?