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 sp.
 * Spruce beer of the human tribes of High Moor was brewed with sugar extracted from wild sugar beets, spruce tree, and molasses.

Appearances

 * Adventures
 * Marco Volo: Journey &bull; Princes of the Apocalypse
 * Novels
 * Waterdeep &bull; Realms of Magic: "The Wild Bunch"
 * Cormyr: A Novel
 * Video Games
 * Neverwinter Nights: Darkness over Daggerford
 * Neverwinter Nights: Darkness over Daggerford
 * Neverwinter Nights: Darkness over Daggerford
 * Neverwinter Nights: Darkness over Daggerford