Top 10 feel-good foods

Add these ingredients to your life for more energy and well-being in the coming year

  • Share
  • Yahoo BuzzFacebookTwitterDigg
  • |
  • Print
  • |
  • Email
  • |
  • Add Comment
  • |
Text size:AAA
Chioggia beets
Photography by Thomas J. Story

Chioggia beets

The news: Still found mainly in farmers’ markets but starting to show up in specialty grocery stores, these red-and-white–striped roots are sweeter than other beets―and so beautiful, they might win over any beet doubters.

Feel-good factors: Beets have lots of fiber, potassium, iron, and folic acid, a B vitamin. Betacyanin, the pigment that gives beets their color, is a powerful antioxidant.

Ways to try them: Sauté the greens. Roast beets until just tender; cut up for salads (they’re great with avocados). Slice raw beets paper-thin; add to soup.

Recipe:  Gold Beet and Beet Greens Soup

NextQuinoa

Sicilian-style pan-fried sardines

Previous Slide Fresh sardines

Quinoa

Next Slide Quinoa

6 of 11
Chioggia beets

  • Loading comments...

Add your comment

The rules: Keep it clean, and stay on the subject or we might delete your comment. If you see inappropriate language, e-mail us. An asterisk * indicates a required field.

500 characters remaining

Sunset > To Go
  • Subscribe
  • Give a Gift
  • Newsletters
  • Plant Finder
Add Sunset to:
My Yahoo! My Google My MSN My AOL

Advertisement



Most Popular > Sunset