The part that sprouts and grows leaves is the tail, and the other end is the head.
The carrot is an annual or biennial herb in the family Umbelliferae. Its roots are stout, conical or cylindrical, fleshy purple or yellow, with long petioles, ternate pinnately compound leaves, compound umbels, and small yellowish or white flowers. Native to the area of Central Asia, has a history of more than four thousand years.
The Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions, the carrot back to the mainland, and has since taken root in all parts of our country to multiply. Widely cultivated throughout the country. Carrot like temperature and cold, suitable for growing in sandy soil with a thick layer of soil. Although there is a wild artemisia medicinal flavor, but the nutritional value is quite high can be cooked, but also eaten raw, can cook a variety of dishes.
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Carrot eating taboos:
1, not suitable for raw food.
While carrots are known as the "treasure trove of vitamin A", but the role of the mucosa in the small intestine can be transformed into vitamin A carotene is a fat-soluble substance, only and cooking oil or meat together, to be fully absorbed by the body.
So, carrots are not suitable for raw food. In terms of cooking methods, stewing carrots in a pressure cooker is better. Because it reduces the contact between carrots and air, so that the preservation rate of beta-carotene can be as high as 97%, and the digestive absorption rate in the body can reach 90%.
2, and white radish should not be eaten together.
The carrots and white radish together into a dish, looks very good red and white, in fact, is not scientific. Because carrots contain a substance called chemical enzyme, will destroy the white carrot in the very high content of vitamin C.
3, do not eat too much.
Large intake of carotene can cause changes in skin pigmentation, turning it orange.
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