Beet

Beetroots was as type of root vegetable produced by the beet plant, common throughout Faerûn.
==Description==
The vegetable was a sweet and nutritious root of blood-red color.
*Sugar beets: the species of beets used to produce sugar and often used to make candy and potables.
==Availability==
*Berdusk's Chauntea monastery, the Great Mother's House grew numerous types of produce, including sugar beets.
*Daggerford's Chateau Elite served Beef Sharburg with a side of Marsember Beets and followed by a bowl of eldritch berry custard in the late 14 century DR.
*High Moor's human tribes gathered wild produce from the moors and the Misty Forest. These plants included sugar beets, wild berries, and bluecaps.
*Marsember in Cormyr was known to cultivate beets and sport them through the Sword Coast. The dish known as Marsember Beets was an expensive ice dish served with beef.
*Moon Mountain Brewery in the Savage Frontier grew their own crop of sugar beets used for alcohol-making.
*Red Larch markets in the Savage Frontier often sold pickled beets from the previous year's harvest.
===Trade===
*Chessenta-grown produce, including beets, were sold across the Sea of Fallen Stars and during especially harvest-rich years, sent via Shar-traversing caravans and into the ports of the Lake of Steam.
*Mistledale's Ashabenford was a trade town that allowed farmers from across the Dalelands to sell their produce of beets, hay, vegetables, potatoes, and grains to Cormyr and the Moonsea.
==Usage==
*Beetroot relish was sold through Aurora's Whole Realms Catalogue for five silver pieces per quart.
*Blood-drops, a food made of thinly sliced and fried beets, covered with sweet or spicy dusting.
*Pickled beets were a staple of inns in the West Faerûn, between Dragonspear Castle and Daggerford, as well as Red Larch's markets. A quart was sold for four silver pieces.
*Spruce beer of the human tribes of High Moor was brewed with sugar extracted from wild sugar beets, spruce tree, and molasses.
==Appendix==
===Appearances===
:;Adventures
::Marco Volo: Journey • Princes of the Apocalypse
:;Novels
::Waterdeep • Realms of Magic: "The Wild Bunch"
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::Cormyr: A Novel
:;Video Games
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::Neverwinter Nights: Darkness over Daggerford
===References===
Category:Vegetables
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Category:Food and drink from Toril
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Category:Food and drink from the Eastern Heartlands
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Category:Food and drink from the Delimbiyr Vale
Category:Food and drink from the Sword Coast
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Category:Food and drink from Berdusk
Category:Food and drink from Sunset Vale
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Category:Food and drink from Red Larch
Category:Food and drink from the Savage Frontier
Category:Food and drink from Northwest Faerûn
Category:Food and drink from Moon Mountain Brewery
Category:Food and drink from Chessenta
Category:Food and drink from the Lake of Steam
Category:Food and drink from Ashabenford
Category:Food and drink from Mistledale
Category:Food and drink from the Dalelands
Category:Food and drink from Cormyr
Category:Food and drink from the Moonsea
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Category:Food and drink from Aurora's Whole Realms Catalogue
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