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Cooking & Baking

Major Nikon

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3. That's what I would probably do

Reply to cbayer (Reply #2)

Wed Feb 27, 2013, 08:55 PM

Feb 2013

Unless I felt like going back to the market and exchanging them. I hate to waste food, so I cut the bad parts out and use produce like that fairly often. It's unlikely that anything pathogenic to humans is going to infect beats and even if it did you almost certainly wouldn't be able to detect it anyway.

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Question about beets. [View all] cbayer Feb 2013 OP

Sounds like powdery mildew Major Nikon Feb 2013 #1

So, was I right to dig out and discard the brown parts inside the beet? cbayer Feb 2013 #2

That's what I would probably do Major Nikon Feb 2013 #3

Thanks so much. cbayer Feb 2013 #4

Common beet fungus, sometimes infects potatoes. Harmless. Cutting it out was cool. pinto Feb 2013 #5

We shall see, as I will finish off the soup today. cbayer Feb 2013 #6