Beet Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Beet (Beta vulgaris) is a biennial of the amaranth family, Amaranthaceae, bred from the wild sea beet of Mediterranean and Atlantic shorelines and grown as a vegetable in Europe since Roman times. In its first year it forms a rosette of large, glossy, often red-veined leaves on fleshy stalks above a swollen taproot, deep crimson in the garden beet, white in sugar beet, and slender in chard, which is grown for leaves only. In the second year it bolts to 1 to 2 meters with spikes of tiny greenish flowers. The root tastes sweet and earthy, the flavor of geosmin. We extract the dried leaf and root separately.