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Simple to prepare, this vegetable has a few nutritional surprises.
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Beetroot
Simple to prepare, this vegetable has a few
nutritional surprises.
Ok that’s the medical terminology out of the way. Let’s put it in plain and simple English:
Beetroot is a powerful weapon in the prevention of heart disease, provided you have a good healthy diet. It contains compounds that utilize common vitamins – folic acid, Vitamins B6 and B12, found in a healthy diet, to disarm a byproduct of an amino acid that hardens arteries, makes the arterial wall ‘sticky’ and induces clumping of platelets that form clots – the cause of coronaries, the most common heart disease.
It's easy to prepare your own beetroot and it will keep for a year. See our Beetroot page in the Recipes section.
Beetroot - a powerful weapon against cardiovascular disease
These vitamins were first discovered only in the 1920s and science is still investigating all the reactions involved but we have enough evidence to say there are links between the interaction of these vitamins and several illnesses. That doesn’t say that consuming these vitamins with beetroot will prevent these conditions because there are other contributing factors too. It does say that this will substantially reduce some of the risks of suffering these ailments.
Folic acid increases lipolysis (the body’s
breakdown of fats) in adipocytes and may have a role in the prevention
of obesity and type 2 diabetes. The highest sources of folic acid are
leafy vegetables such as spinach, asparagus, turnip greens, legumes
such as dried or fresh beans, peas and lentils, liver and liver
products also contain high amounts of folate. Kidney and egg yolks,
baker's yeast, fortified grain products (pasta, cereal, bread); some
breakfast cereals (ready-to-eat and others) are fortified with 25% to
100% of the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) for folic acid and
sunflower seeds. Low levels of folic acid is suspected of contributing
to depression, macular degeneration, bone health, menopause side
effects, fertility, may increase the risk of schizophrenia and low
levels of folic acid have been found form a relationship between
allergic diseases like asthma and wheezing.
Vitamin B6 is widely distributed in foods in
both its free and bound forms. Good sources include meats, whole grain
products, vegetables, nuts and bananas.
Vitamin B12 is found in foods that come from
animals, including fish and shellfish, meat (especially liver),
poultry, eggs, milk, and milk products. One half chicken breast
provides some 0.3 µg (micrograms) per serving or 6.0% of one's
daily value (DV); 85 grams (3 oz) of beef, 2.4 µg, or 40% of
one's DV; one slice of liver 47.9 µg or 780% of DV; and 85 grams
(3 oz) of molluscs 84.1 µg, or 1,400% of DV.
When these three vitamins are present along with beetroot in your diet, they react to to reduce the concentration of homocysteine in the blood, which reduces arterial hardening, sticky arterials walls and excessive clotting - the major cause of coronaries.
In terms of dietry calories, beetroot is also quite low. Even though it is sweet, it containes virtually no fats.
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