Raw Beetroot Juice: Food that Heals, the best way to prepare

Beetroot, the small red vegetable, eaten all around the world, in a raw form in the salads, raw beetroot juice, in a soup, or as a processed pickle, is…  an incredibly valuable vegetable. The health benefits of beetroot explain why it helps heal anemia, skin and other internal organs diseases. Some specialist even say, that

The nutrients Beetroot contains, make it far better for our health than some supplements available on the market today Share on X.

History of Beetroot

Known to men for thousands of years, it was found in Saqqara pyramid at Thebes, Egypt, (from the time of Third Dynasty- around three thousand years before Christ). Further, there are mentions of beetroot in the ancient Assyrian texts which picture the vegetable growing in the Hanging Gardens of Babylon (800 BC). Ancient Greeks also cultivated it around 300 BC. However, the beautiful Greeks used only the leaves of it, and threw away the healthy roots. It was even offered by them to Apollo, the Sun God, in the temple of Delphi, Greece.

Famous Hippocrates used leaves of beetroot for dressing wounds. Romans used it to cure fever, and as of today, we know of an at least one cook book, written by a famous ancient Roman- Apicius (“The art of cooking”), which included the recipes of dishes made of beetroot! like salads and broths.

Moreover, the interesting fact is, that the beetroot of those times looked differently, than the vegetable we are used to today, as it looked like a carrot :).

raw organic beets

Food that Heals

Nowadays, when food is so much more than just a means to satisfy hunger, we look at this vegetable with a raw lust type of intensity.

Anemia, weak blood vessels, reduction of blood pressure, helps cure metabolic disorders. Moreover, raw beetroot juice helps skin diseases, avitaminosis, chronic tiredness, are just a few examples of illnesses beetroot can help heal.

With such power to heal, it is also a vegetable very easy to prepare, and tasty to eat.

raw beetroots

The characteristics of beetroot : beet juice health benefits

The chemical composition of the vegetable contains:

• carbohydrates,
• water,
• pectins,
• proteins,
• organic acids

The vitamins in beets:

A, B, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B9, C, E, PP

It is full of nutrients as well: magnesium, potassium, calcium, sulfur, sodium, chlorine, phosphorus. Moreover iron, zinc, copper, manganese, molybdenum, vanadium, boron, nickel, cobalt, iodine, rubidium, fluorine.

It takes part in the creation of the amino acid methionine,  necessary for the well-being and beauty of fingernails, hair, or skin.

health benefits of beetroot juice

Even if the data on the website page, may seem to be illusive, the results beetroot consumption brings to our bodies, are just tremendous. I heal anemia, that come back over and over again. I take iron, in the form of pills, from a US company NOW, but I do not rely on the pills alone. Beetroot helps me too.

I drink beetroot juice, eat beetroot in smoothies, and during a very very special beetroot juice, made of the sliced beetroot root, garlic, salt, water.

In this article, we will have a closer look on the best way to prepare the beetroot juice and how powerful it is for human longevity.

How to prepare the raw beetroot juice

As with the vegetable and fruit juices, the freshly squeezed ones are the better. They contain the highest amounts of nutrients, vitamins. But here, we do something differently.

• If you are able to buy the organic beetroot roots, simply wash them and squeeze them in a juicer.
• If the roots you buy come from an uknown source, are not organic, you can still use it. In this situation,  immerse them for 15-20 minutes in salt water (salt water preparation: take 1 tablespoon of salt per 1 liter of water).

health benefits of beetroot juice

The salt water helps neutralize harmful chemical substances used during the vegetables and fruits cultivation.

How we drink it, to achieve the greatest health benefits

Drink beetroot juice alone or in combination with honey (which strengthens its properties). Add 1 teaspoon of honey per 30-50 ml of juice. You can also add apple or carrot juice, or both (adding these juices strengthens the final health benefits). The recipe comes from a famous Polish doctor, Michał Tombak, you can find it in his books, which you can buy it our store

Raw beetroot juice in longevity books

But… Because of the high concentration of the nutrients, minerals in it, it is best to drink the fresh Beetroot Juice 2-3 hours after squeezing Share on X.

In the next article about the healing powers of beetroot, we will write about our family recipe, that helps regulate the immune system, and is very easy to prepare: beetroot drink.

Be healthy!

Reference links

Wikipedia describes beetroot