BEETS

Beets are known mostly in the United states in their nutritious, easy to cultivate form, the red beet root.  This vegetable has a massive history, recorded as being cultivated as far back as the second millennium BC.  The plant was probably domesticated somewhere along the Mediterranean, where it then was spread to Babylonia in the 8th century, and then to our thanksgiving tables for it's rich taste and nutritional value.
Its bright color has also bought it fame in many art works in history.

APPLES

Apples actually come from trees that are in the rose family, making them closely related to rose hips.  It is the number one fruit that is most cultivated by humans.  Its genome has been entirely decoded, allowing for apple growers to weed out disease and deformation in the plants.  Apples have even been created to taste like other fruits, including grapes and oranges.

   Because of apples' bright color and interesting shape, it has also been included in many paintings throughout art history, including many religious paintings of Adam and Eve.  Apples have been known to symbolize fertility and wealth in many paintings.  For some reason however, the forbidden fruit in pictures with Adam and Eve has always been depicted as an apple, even though geographically it was impossible for apples to grow in that part of the world.

                                 

 GREEN BEANS

Green Beans, otherwise known as French beans, are a universally distributed vegetable.  The term "green bean" means the unripened fruit of any kind of bean.  Green beans have been historically related to the Thanksgiving meal time, but because they contain high levels of a chemical called Lectin, are harmful if consumed in large quantities.