Are dried extracts of beetroot, like the X Gold supplement, Beet Root Extract Capsules – 12000mg 20x Concentrated Beet Root Capsules Supplement w/Black Pepper ($22.45 for 90 servings), and the Herba Organic Beet Root Supplement 10,000mg – 180 Vegetable Capsules 20X ($29.99 for 180 servings), just as effective or more so than eating beets in the diet for the variety of health benefits beets can provide?

While we understand the trepidation about turning to a dried extract of food rather than ingesting the fresh food itself, the virtue of using supplements is not only to condense the active ingredients into a more compact form to simplify intake, starting with not having to cook something before ingestion but to simply dole out capsules, the end result of having the supplement will likely eclipse having something in the diet if the supplement is taken on a regular basis. Having a set of supplements taken regularly, which themselves consist of multiple ingredients each, results in a potentially quite broad array of nutraceuticals that will be available to promote well-being on a consistent basis, especially with divine augmentation to further extend their value. It is not possible to have a diet with such diversity except for a very, very few indigenous people living in a plant-rich environment and are living off the land. So with the present example, it is hard to envision many people who would choose to have a large serving of beets each and every day but they could easily take a couple of capsules of a beet concentrate and gain the equivalent benefit.