Norman Olverson Ltd , owners of the brand "Red Velvet" is a family run business located in Lancashire involved in farming and processing beetroot. Their organic beetroot is freshly cooked and lightly dipped in organic vinegar, or vacuum packed without preservatives. Their website has a number of recipes involving beetroot and a number of facts about beetroot such as that is was used by the Romans as an aphrodisiac. (It used to make their heart beet faster, so they could meet the dance beet better.) [John]
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