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including nutrition facts, health benefits and easy recipes to try. One cup of beets has: Not only are beets packed with fiber, but they also contain calcium, vitamin C, iron, potassium and magnesium.

The sea beet, Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima ((L.) Arcangeli.), is a member of the family Amaranthaceae, previously of the Chenopodiaceae. Carl Linnaeus first described Beta vulgaris in 1753 ...