Talk:Beta vulgaris

message: Nice pictures, I must say. Very lovely baby beets, for sure! This page is redirected from beetroot, even though it is a seperate variety (not sure of the terminology) like sugarbeet. Shouldn't beetroot be a seperate article? Peter Isotalo 19:45, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)
: It's become more braod than the beetroot only article it was before, but the American usage seems to be beet, while UK is beetroot. GraemeLeggett 15:18, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Are carrots referred to as carrotroot?71.79.29.143 (talk) 22:23, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Domain 

message: From the article: "An average sized cup (250 ml) of sliced beets..."
Including the metric equivalent was a nice thought, but in most metric-using countries solid ingredients are measured by weight, not volume.  Does anyone happen to have a cup of sliced beets to hand, and if so, could they change that to give the equivalent in grams rather than millilitres?
:Done --Renice 01:12, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Units 

message: I added the bit on colour but was unsure if the English "colour" rather than american "color" spelling was appropriate Andham2000 15:04, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It's originally a European native plant, so it should be at international spelling - MPF 12:13, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: European native plant has nothing to do with it.  If it is not dealing with something connected to a particular variant of the English language, original usage should prevail.  Your argument is like saying we should never use maize but always call it corn, using American English for an American native plant.  Gene Nygaard 14:35, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The spelling should be consistent - the change of "colorant" to "colourant" was more in keeping with consistency and minimal changes than changing all instances of "colour" to "color". GraemeLeggett 14:51, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The color spelling was used here for months before the colour spelling—and for more months after the inconsistent with existing spellings "colour" was added by Andham2000.  Gene Nygaard 15:46, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Note also that the main reason I checked up and went to original spelling was because of the edit summary statement by User:Xyster, to match "international spelling".  That simply is contrary to the Wikipedia rules.  As you point out, consistency within an article is an admirable goal; if Xyster had made his edit on that basis, it is unlikely I would even have checked what the original spelling was.  Gene Nygaard 15:52, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry for the lack of clarity in my edit - it actually was for consistency with the spelling of 'colour' in the rest of the article; I clouded matters with my reference to 'International English' quoted from MPF's comment above. Xyster 11:41, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Colour 

message: Its not clear if the nutritional info given is for raw, cooked, pickled or whatever. In the interests of accuracy should this be checked? 20.133.0.14 28 June 2005 15:45 (UTC)
* Yes, it should; such nutritional labels (U.S.-style) are not normally found on fresh veggies, so I suspect this is from canned beets. But I'm not in the U.S. so I can't run out and check this myself. Sharkford 14:46, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Nutrition

message: I have never eaten a beet, or even seen a beet. Once I layed down beats. But in any case, I approached the article desiring to understand the experience of beet eating...how does it taste? What does the taste resemble?
There is nothing on the avalibility of the beet during the year, when is it best grown?
:In Portland, Oregon, people generally buy the roots of beets that have been minced and canned (in metal cans).  It is unusual to find bottled beets unless you do them yourself, and are the "do it yourself" -  When you buy them from the grocery store and open them up, they are almost always going to be in the shape of 1/4 inch cubes, all a deep scarlet red color.  I have, however, seen some beets that crinkle cut, as if they were processed like pickles are.
:Beets out of the can are not crisp.  They do not crunch like crisp pickles do.  They are a little on the soggy side because they are canned in their own broth.  I imagine the reason they are not crisp is because they are heated prior to canning or bottling.
:So far as I can tell, beets have a fruity flavor, with almost no citric or ascorbic acid.  They taste like they are a little bit on the pungent side because manufacturers soak them with cloves or allspice before canning.  I was recently reading a book about prisoners of war in Germany, and one of the soups that prisoners got to eat (i.e., sip) was beet soup - a kind of sweetish soup made of chopped, boiled beets and cabbage.  198.177.27.26 07:56, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Fresh beets that have been roasted have a very sweet, earthy flavour.Wwm101 17:10, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: suggestion/taste

message: I think the Beta stub should remain separate since it provides links to other species (as yet unpopulated, but still...). It's been 10 days since the notice was placed and there was no discussion, so I'm removing the notice. --Renice 02:54, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm vascillating on this -- but, the one statement in the beta article that trips me up is "Almost all have the common name of 'beet'." If 'beet' were a common name for all beta species, there'd be no problem... Or, could merge beet into beta and make it the main article... ?? What are beta species that aren't commonly called beets? Chard (which is covered in the beet article)? Others?  --Renice 13:58, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Beet  follows standard wiki naming so it belongs as the main article compare with rose/rosa. GraemeLeggett 11:19, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: So you're arguing that beta should be merged into this article? (There's no Rosa article, only the rose article.) --Renice 13:50, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No. Just that renaming beet is not a sensible idea.GraemeLeggett 14:29, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge? 

message: Although several parts of the beet plant are used for food, I think it would be good to have a specific mention of the root as a root vegetable, with a link to the article on root vegetables.  The article on root vegetables does list beets, under True root, Taproot.  140.147.160.78 21:52, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Root vegetable 

message: Beetroot and mangelwurzel are one and the same thing (Beta vulgaris). So why do we need two separate articles?? -- Sakurambo 桜ん坊 16:28, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with [[mangelwurzel]]? 

message: How would one go about tracking down who put a specific edit into an article without having to laboriously compare every single edit with its previous edit?  I ask because someone put a remark about human vomit within the article, and I'm quite sure it's vandalism, or someone trying to push an agenda. (could be both though), although I don't know what to put in place of it or simply remove it. Brian Ryans 00:24, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Simply remove and ignore--there are vandals who put obvious prank comments like this in Wikipedia all of the time, usually they are just children making the modern equivalent of prank phones calls, wasting your time discussing it, repeating it in the edit history and the like are not necessary.  However, these edits were simply the four done before you removed the information.  Usually stuff like this doesn't sit in an article for long, so just looking at what anonymous (IP address, often red-linked instead of blue) did the last edit is sufficient.  Thanks for the reverts. KP Botany 21:47, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Human vomit remark? 

message: The data in the taxobox and the categorization are in dispute currently. According to the taxobox, beet belongs to the family Chenopodiaceae, but the article is in the category Amarantaceae. As far as I know, only APG treats Chenopodiaceae as a subfamily of Amarantaceae (and it should not be called Chenopodiaceae then but Chenopodioidae). 
To provide we're not giving undue weight to APG, I propose recategorization of the article to the category Chenopodiaceae. --Eleassar my talk 08:22, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, unless there is some well-sourced compelling reason for doing otherwise, consistency within the article and the taxobox, tied to a source, with a single mention within the text of the APG I/II (whichever) classification.  KP Botany 03:02, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: seems like someone could go through the whole genus and either put them into amarantacea or chenopodiacea, for example spinach and chard note amaranteacea as the family
trueblood 15:39, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Categorization

message: While attempting to add material to this article from Zohary & Hopf's Domestication of plants in the Old World (third ed.), I found that they list two wild subspecies of B. vulgaris that are not mentioned in this article:
*B. vulgaris macrocarpa (Guss.) Thell., "native to the warmer, more arid parts in the Mediterranean basin"
*B. vulgaris adanensis (Pamukç.) Ford-Lloyds & Williams, "which thrives in the Mediterranean parts of Turkey"
Are these two different subspecies from what is listed, or are they synonyms of what is listed? -- llywrch 20:06, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: B. vulgaris adanensis according to IPNI is B. adanensis.  B. vulgaris macrocarpa is not listed on IPNI.  KP Botany 22:41, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Subspecies 

message: I added a few links that seemed good (full disclosure: I maintain the vegetable home-growing site linked); I also slightly changed the descriptions, seeking a more uniform format (use the page's own title as the link text).
Eric Walker 02:34, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Links 

message: the sea beet page claims that sea beets are the true ancestral form, rather than the vulgaris sub-species —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.106.113.106 (talk) 02:45, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The Sea Beet is the ancestral form, but once a plant has been sufficiently changed by domestistication, it is often considered a different subspecies or even species. Wwm101 17:15, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Dubious

message: Shouldn't there also be an article on the raddish?  Perhaps I'm spelling it wrong?
: Indeed you are. It's "radish". Tevildoii (talk) 17:41, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  the raddish 

message: this term should be wikified. I tried to find a target, but came out empty-handed.
--Jerome Potts (talk) 01:57, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've done so. The target is open pollination (which needs work, but at least it exists).  I suppose there should be a redirect from open-pollinated and/or open pollinated (although the article itself should be a noun, if I'm remembering the WP:MOS correctly). Kingdon (talk) 04:48, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "open-pollinated" 

message: Maybe the article should be under this heading?  That's the advantage of scientific names, universality.  It doesn't seem encyclopaedic to look for a town in the Netherlands and run smack into a North American (name for a) vegetable... So Beet would redirect to Beta Vulgaris (this article), Beets to the town with a top-of-page link to this article.  Just an idea.   Hakluyt bean (talk) 13:54, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You should check Wikiprogect Plants' Naming Conventions. Wwm101 17:20, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beta vulgaris 

message: Just in case anyone is watching this page, I've created a new article at Garden beet to cover that variety of beet. This article is a bit confused with some editors seemingly treating the species Beta vulgaris as a whole while others focus in detail on specific varieties. Ideally this article should be general with links to the articles on relevant varieties, but I don't have time to do a thorough job at the moment. DJLayton4 (talk) 07:02, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  New article at [[garden beet]] 

message: I deleted a claim that beet juice causes vocal cord paralysis, but organic beet juice cures this.  There was no citation provided, and this seems very far-fetched.  If someone has supporting evidence, feel free to add it, but this seems highly unlikely.
--Orthogonalogy (talk) 11:49, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paralysis Claim and Organic "Cure" 

message: This page says all cultivated beets are of the subspecies vulgaris, whereas the chard page says that chard is subspecies maritima.  --Dan Wylie-Sears 2 (talk) 23:14, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  all cultivated are subspecies vulgaris, vs chard is maritima 

message: You need to distinguish between what's said in Jewish classic literature and modern practice.  The things most closely associated with New Year in European tradition are honey and apples, not beets.
4.249.63.185 (talk) 12:36, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jewish New Year 

message: Chenopodiaceae and Amaranthaceae covers the classification issues.  I'm not sure how much should be addressed in this article, or what additional refs we need. --Ronz (talk) 18:21, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia uses the the APG system for classification. Hardyplants (talk) 18:25, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: So what do you suggest?  --Ronz (talk) 19:32, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: For consistancy sake, Wikipedia has abopted the APG system for taxaboxs because it is based on more current research and seems to be accepted by many current researchers in plant systematics. Other informational resources are not so up to date, the Spinach article lists a note that might be useful.   Hardyplants (talk) 21:45, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

text: Here is a ref, though dated by a few years:   Hardyplants (talk) 21:51, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Minimally, I want to make it clear here on the talk page why it's classified this way and that there's some strong consensus for doing so.  I think this brief discussion should be enough.  Thanks! --Ronz (talk) 23:41, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Chenopodiaceae

message: Is the fact that he doesn't like beets really that important to the article?75.142.54.211 (talk) 01:20, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Good observation. I removed it. --Ronz (talk) 01:33, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Someone without a user name re-added this piece of trivia. I removed it, and it was added again. It doesn't add anything to the article, and I see it as going against the recommendations of WP:TRIV. I'm sure we could find references to every famous person's opinion on beet preference, but until we do that, this probably constitutes WP:UNDUE too. I don't want to get into an edit war as someone obviously is interested in keeping this thing in the article. Any suggestions on what to do? DJLayton4 (talk) 19:45, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Obama 

message: The articles Beet, Beetroot and Chard should be merged into a single article under the title "Beta vulgaris".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.125.14.161 (talk) 20:59, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: This article deals with the wild species and the species complex, covering each cultivar briefly. Other articles deal with beetroots and chard in particular and in depth. See WP:FLORA for the policy on this. DJLayton4 (talk) 19:45, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beta vulgaris 

message: refs 3 and 19 are dead links  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Merlin-UK (talk • contribs) 10:26, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead links 

message: There are two "History" sections in the article (also, the root article has no history, but a trivia section). Is this left over from the recent move? Could someone take a look? Jd2718 (talk) 00:42, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I merged the sections, without doing any external research. I note that I kept more of the second section, which was better referenced. However, it nows leans too heavily on a single source. Jd2718 (talk) 00:11, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Multiple "History" sections 

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message: Oh, come. Like anyone knew what oxidative stress was a century ago, let alone centuries. Adam Cuerden (talk) 08:32, 13 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  "It has been suggested the pigment molecule betanin in the root of red beets may protect against oxidative stress and has been used for this purpose in Europe for centuries." 

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replies: text: Ok. --Zefr (talk) 00:58, 19 July 2017 (UTC)
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