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bett

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetroot

is absolutely delicious!!!

I believe it's jicama. Also delicious!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jicama

it's definitely not a beet

It looks too small to be jicama. And the skin is usually a deeper brown. That said, though, I have NO idea what it is.

Not beets. And too small to be jicama - these roots are only 2 inches long.

In Mandarin, it's called "Bigi". It's identical to a water chestnut in taste and texture (crunchy and juicy). Use it in any recipe that calls for water chestnuts; at its size, it's so much easier to peel and chop.

It's baby jicama - even sweeter and lighter in texture than its grown-up counterpart. You can peel and eat like apples. An Asian farmer also sells it at the Galleria Farmers Market on Thursdays (when it's in season for a few weeks).

definitely a jicama

I have also recently seen those at Alemany as smaller-than-grocery-store-size jicama.

Hi. It's a turnip. I'm from the Philippines and here we call it "singkamas". We eat it as it is or sometimes use it to cook with other vegetables.