Liquid Vitamin Facts: Turnip and Beet Greens, Garbage?

Posted January 19th, 2006 by admin

Today’s liquid vitamin facts cover a vitamin rich delight often thrown away.

Today we slip away from liquid vitamin facts and stick with a subtopic, vitamins. Vitamins can be a major part of our diet and can come from some obscure places. With this in mind, what do you do with your beet and turnip greens? Garbage! Most send them down the garbage disposal but these green can be implemented into a meal and offer many health benefits.

Turnip and beet greens can offer high levels of vitamin A, vitamin C, and folate. There sharp, hardy flavor can be added to your diet in a few ways. You can braise, add them to soups or fold them in a pasta dish.

Many people in America actually do eat turnip and beet greens right now. Turnip and beet greens are common in Europe and were thought to have made their way into the American diet long ago during slavery from the West African Heritage.

Some rich sources of vitamins and minerals may be the very food you throw away. One person’s trash is another person’s vitamin rich delight. Take today’s liquid vitamin facts topic to your kitchen and see what you discover.

Daniel Weigum


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