{"id":774531,"date":"2026-09-18T08:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T08:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/774531\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T08:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T08:56:10","slug":"meet-the-mangelwurzel-the-forgotten-root-vegetable-making-a-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/774531\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the mangelwurzel: The forgotten root vegetable making a comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A forgotten vegetable once viewed as peasant or livestock food is enjoying an unlikely comeback in Somerset as a festival in its honour takes place this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 100 people across seven villages between Glastonbury and Bridgwater are now growing mangelwurzels, the bright red root crop crossed between beetroot, sugar beet and chard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Great Polden Hills Mangelwurzel Day will see vegetables judged in categories like  &#8216;Biggest Girth&#8217;, &#8216;Best Looking Legs&#8217;, and looking &#8216;Most like Donald Trump&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Event founder Beverley Finnegan said: &#8220;What started as a challenge between friends to grow the biggest mangelwurzel has, eight months later, become a festival with hundreds of locals involved.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A forgotten vegetable once viewed as peasant or livestock food is enjoying an unlikely comeback in Somerset as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-774531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}