Carrots are not a flatulence food!

The so-called flatulence food refers to the food itself contains inhibitory protein, sugar, dietary fiber and other components of digestion and absorption, so that the human body can be absorbed to reduce the utilization rate. For example:

Legumes, especially whole soybeans, have low protein digestibility and high dietary fiber content, which are flatulence foods.

Milk, containing lactose, if the body lactase activity is low, it will produce lactose intolerant people, after drinking milk will have bloating.

Foods rich in large amounts of starch, such as groundnuts, are not well digested when eaten in excess due to the lack of enzymes in the body to digest polysaccharides.

In addition to the above foods, the amount of food eaten and the external environment can also cause flatulence in the stomach. For example, eating too much food or eating food with gas. This will all lead to flatulence. It causes bloating.

Carrots, although in vegetables, the carbohydrate content is higher than the average vegetable, but there are more types of sugar, such as sucrose, and polysaccharides. It is easier to absorb into the body.

Nutritional value of carrots:

Carrots, the biggest nutritional feature, is that it is rich in vitamin A (342ug/100g) as well as β-carotene (4107ug/100g), as well as potassium, sodium and so on.

The beta-carotene contained in carrots can also be converted into vitamin A when it enters the body, so carrots are rich in vitamin A, which helps to maintain the integrity of the mucous membrane layer of the skin and protects the upper respiratory tract from infections and the digestive system. Moreover, there is good protection of eyesight, as well as promote growth and development and maintenance of reproductive function as well as promote immune function, and carrots are also supplemental vitamin A very good plant foods.

In addition to this, carrots also contain the polyphenol quercetin, which increases arterial blood flow and prevents the body's ability to fight cancer.

Carrots are vegetables with high nutritional value, and have the function of expectorant, eliminating food, removing flatulence, and fixing asthma in Chinese medicine dietary therapy.

So, carrot is not a gas-producing food. Instead, it removes flatulence.