Diabetes can eat carrots.

Nutritional value of carrots:

It has been determined that every 100 grams of carrots, containing about 0.6 grams of protein, 0.3 grams of fat, 7.6 to 8.3 grams of sugar, 0.6 milligrams of iron, vitamin A proto (carotene) 1.35-17.25 milligrams of vitamin B10.02-0.04 milligrams of vitamin B20.04-0.05 milligrams. Vitamin C12 milligrams, calories 150.7 kilojoules, another pectin, starch, inorganic salts and a variety of amino acids.

Carrots contain nine kinds of amino acids and a dozen kinds of enzymes, as well as the human body must carrots are rich in beta-carotene, in the human body can be turned. Chemicalized into vitamin A, can effectively improve eye fatigue and eye dryness. In addition, this substance is also necessary for the normal growth of bones. Carrots are best eaten cooked, because it contains fat-soluble vitamins, eaten raw can cause most of the carotene can not be absorbed by the body. Therefore, it is best to cut carrots into pieces and meat with the pressure cooker stew, in order to improve the absorption rate of carotene.

Many minerals are needed, such as calcium, phosphorus is the main component of the composition of the bone; copper and iron is the synthesis of hemoglobin essential substances; fluorine can enhance the teeth corrosion resistance; carrots in the crude fiber can stimulate gastrointestinal peristalsis, beneficial to digestion. Modern Chinese medicine research has found that carrots also have hypotensive, cardiac, anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic effects.

1, carrots can lower sugar research:

Harvard Research Institute, a recent survey shows that: often eat carrots of people's blood glucose levels are very ideal, the chances of getting diabetes than the average person to be lower than the average 27 percentage points.

A new study from the University of Minnesota's School of Public **** Health found that fresh carrots are rich in carotenoids, which are not only antioxidants but also help prevent diabetes. Researchers followed 4,500 people for 15 years and proved that people with high levels of carotenoids in their blood had only a 50 percent risk of developing diabetes compared to those with low levels.

Researchers measured blood glucose levels in the subjects' blood to determine if they had diabetes. At the same time, beta carotene levels in each individual's blood were compared. The results showed that healthy people had the highest levels of beta carotene in their blood, while diabetics had the lowest.

2, diabetics can eat carrots:

Diabetic patients whose blood will produce a large number of free genes, it is these free genes destroy the activity of insulin in the body. Carrots contain a lot of beta carotene, can remove the free radicals in the body, so eat more carrots in the daily diet on the prevention and treatment of diabetes has great help.

The lignin in carrots has the effect of improving the body's anti-cancer ability and eliminating cancer cells. Containing rich fruit acid (10%) is conducive to sugar and lipid metabolism, the substance extracted with petroleum ether, has the effect of significantly lowering blood sugar.

Experts suggest that to make carrots play a better role in lowering blood sugar, it is best to eat carrots with fat, put some olive oil can be.

Three, diabetics eat carrots benefits:

1, beneficial to the liver and eyesight

Carrots contain a large number of carotene, the molecular structure of this carotene is equivalent to 2 molecules of vitamin A, into the body, in the liver and the mucous membrane of the small intestine after the enzyme, of which 50% into the vitamin A, has a complement to the liver and eyesight role, can treat night blindness.

2, diaphragm wide bowel

Carrot contains plant fiber, strong water absorption, in the intestinal tract volume is easy to expand, is the intestinal tract in the "filling material", can strengthen the peristalsis of the intestinal tract, so that diaphragm wide intestinal, laxative anti-cancer.