In year 1649 an herbalist named Culpeper wrote in The Complete Herbal and English Physician Enlarged (1649), that beetroot is good for headaches and colds, and that it helps to cleanse the liver and spleen. Some even believe today, that eating one raw beet a day prevents cancer.
The Greeks left no record of beet, however we know, that they served them on a silver platter to the god Apollo in his temple at Delphi. Can we allow ourselves to make a guess, that that, which was good enough for Apollo, it was also good enough for his subjects?
