Why growing your own beetroot can benefit your health

Growing beetroot yourself will pay dividends when it comes to sustenance and health, says Fiann Ó Nualláin.

THERE has been talk lately of bringing back the beet industry — Ireland’s climate is well suited to growing sugar beet, so called because it contains a lot of sucrose and also because that sucrose was once extracted on a massive commercial scale here and around Europe as an alternative to tropical sugar cane.