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Default Homemade Beet Extract

On Sat, 05 Jun 2021 11:42:13 -0400, Sheldon Martin >
wrote:

>On Sat, 5 Jun 2021 10:52:28 -0400, jmcquown >
>wrote:
>
>>On 6/2/2021 6:57 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
>>> On Tue, 01 Jun 2021 04:07:10 -0700, Daniel wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm researching the addition of beet extract to my daily supplement
>>>> stack. Online offerings aren't that expensive but began considering a
>>>> homemade variety.
>>>>
>>>> I went to the store and found beets priced rather inexpensively.
>>>
>>> Must be sale, they're about $2.50-$3 bunch here (maybe a pound of
>>> beets in all), and 95% water. They're never cheap unless canned.
>>>

>>Beets are actually pretty darn cheap. Doesn't make me want to eat them.
>>
>>>> So, I
>>>> did some cursory searching for homemade techniques. Most articles point
>>>> to making the juice. A few pointed to making the powder. What I'd like
>>>> is a reduced/sticky solution at the end.
>>>
>>> What does it matter? That sound the most time and energy consuming
>>> and the most destructive. Just buy some dried beets and powder them
>>> (Costco has organic dried) and then ingest however you want. Or
>>> take a multi vitamin daily rather than chasing each new prospective
>>> health fad.
>>>
>>> -sw
>>>

>>Health food fads are a curious thing. Maybe he should be eating poi.
>>
>>Jill

>
>A lot of people don't like beets but I like them and prefer canned.
>Fresh at the produce section are not very fresh, the leaves have
>typically dried and were removed. I tried growing beets but not much
>luck, it's an underground crop and insecticide chems are required or
>the insects tunnel into them. Instead we grow chard, which are
>actually beet greens... easy to grow and better than spinach.
>I buy canned beets by the case in their various configurations, whole,
>sliced, diced. We like them in garden salad with various dressings. I
>enjoy the beet juice, cooks treat, very good with a dollop of sour
>cream.

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