Sqwertz wrote:

>
> "Never drink beet juice by itself. Beet juice should always be mixed
> with other vegetables and/or apple juice. Pure beet juice (from the
> bulb or greens) can temporarily paralyze your vocal chords, make you
> break out in hives, increase your heart rate, cause chills or a fever."
>
> I dont' know what to make of that. Sounds pretty far fetched as beet
> juice is considered a healthy drink from everything I've read. And
> eating beets isn't that much different than drinking the juice.
>



You never know. For example, rhubarb stalks are edible but the leaves
(full of oxalic acid) are poisonous?

gloria p