Super Food: Beets

While there are many nutritious foods, you just can't "beet" the benefits of eating or juicing beets.  Beets are packed with antioxidants, vitamins A, B, and C, and potassium. These nutrients help support the immune system, manufacture red blood cells, and ensure our vital organs work properly. Perhaps the gold medal nutrient in beets is the folate, which helps strengthen neural tubes. Folate can also help prevent neural tube defects in babies, so pregnant ladies, eat your beets. 

I love to add them to salads, or eat them as a side dish. They also make a very healthful, detoxifying juice. My favorite homemade juice is carrot, apple, ginger, beet juice. (Don't be alarmed if your pee is purple after drinking it...It happens!!!)

 Beet juice recipe

One green apple

2-3 large carrots

1/2 inch knob of fresh ginger

1/2 of a beet  

Large handful of spinach