# Long Colorful Beets for flavor

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**Category:** Adaptation Projects\
**Tags:** beets, beta-vulgaris, beetroot\
**Created:** [November 3, 2025, 1:31pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/long-colorful-beets-for-flavor/4331 "2025-11-03T13:31:51Z")\
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I found a very interesting article on beet flavor by the team referenced above (Irwin Goldman, Solveig Hansen etc). It is perhaps the first participatory plant breeding study on beets!

I will read it more thoroughly later, but found some surprising facts already:

- Geosmin concentration is not the central factor determining whether people in their study (chefs, farmers, CSA members) like the beets.
- People didn’t even experience high geosmin beets as more earthy. They didn’t find a relationship between geosmin and earthy flavor.

Read article here: [Participatory plant breeding reveals that geosmin concentration is not the central determinant of hedonic liking in table beet | Euphytica | Springer Nature Link](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10681-021-02959-w)

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