Editing Beetroot (section)

{{Short description|Taproot portion of the beet plant}}
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{{Infobox cultivar
| name = Beetroot
| image = Detroitdarkredbeets.png
| image_caption = Beetroots on the stem
| species = ''[[Beta vulgaris]]''
| subspecies =''Beta vulgaris'' subsp. ''vulgaris''
| group = '''Conditiva Group'''
| origin = [[Sea beet|Sea beet (''Beta vulgaris'' subsp. ''maritima'')]]
| subdivision = Many; see text.
}}

The '''beetroot''' ([[British English]]) or '''beet''' ([[North American English]]) is the [[taproot]] portion of a ''[[Beta vulgaris]]'' subsp. ''vulgaris'' plant in the Conditiva [[Cultivar group|Group]].<ref>"beet". def. 1 and 2. also "beet-root." ''Oxford English Dictionary'' Second Edition on CD-ROM (v. 4.0) © Oxford University Press 2009</ref> The plant is a [[root vegetable]] also known as the '''table beet''', '''garden beet''', '''dinner beet''', or else categorized by color: '''red beet''' or '''golden beet'''. It is also a [[leaf vegetable]] called '''beet greens'''. Beetroot can be eaten raw, roasted, steamed, or boiled. Beetroot can also be canned, either whole or cut up, and often are pickled, spiced, or served in a sweet-and-sour sauce.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-05-05 |title=Beet {{!}} Description, Root, Leaf, Nutrition, & Facts  |url=https://www.britannica.com/plant/beet |access-date=2024-05-17 |website=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |language=en}}</ref>

It is one of several cultivated varieties of ''Beta vulgaris'' subsp. ''vulgaris'' grown for their edible taproots or leaves, [[Taxonomy (biology)|classified]] as belonging to the Conditiva [[Cultivar group|Group]].<ref name=MMPND>{{Cite web |title=Sorting Beta names |url=http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Beta.html |work=Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database |publisher=The University of Melbourne |access-date=2013-04-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130504173112/http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Beta.html |archive-date=2013-05-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Other cultivars of the same subspecies include the [[sugar beet]], the leaf vegetable known as spinach beet (Swiss [[chard]]), and the [[fodder]] crop [[mangelwurzel]].