“Eat beets for intestinal bleeding.”

“In European countries beet was first used as animal fodder in large scale and became a popular vegetable for human consumption in the sixteenth century. Analytical intervention by alchemists, and then by modern chemists of the nineteenth century, resulted in the discovery that beet root was a concentrated source of sugar. While sugar supply from cane industries of Britain was curtailed to other parts, Napoleon was the first to pronounce that beet be used as an alternative for sugar production, which not only catalyzed beet’s popularity but also encouraged breeding and selection, resulting in many cultivars.”