Carrots, known as the "ginseng" of the reputation of its appearance, although coarse and its color and flavor by the children's favorite.
According to relevant information, every 100 grams of carrots containing calcium 19 mg, phosphorus 23 mg, iron 1.9 mg, vitamin C6 mg, niacin 0.3 mg, B carotene 3 mg, but also rich in protein, alanine, aspartic acid, lysine and other nine kinds of amino acids, more than a dozen kinds of enzymes, glucose, pectin, B vitamins and many minerals.
Chinese medicine, B carotene is a vitamin A proto, to protect eyesight, promote children's growth and development, reduce blood lipids, enhance the body's resistance to disease, anti-aging ability to have a significant role in scavenging oxygen radicals antioxidant, anti-induced changes in the performance of the human body to enhance immune function, can reduce or prevent the generation of cancer cells. Practice has proved that carrots have the natural effect of lowering blood pressure, cardiotonic, diuretic, anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic.
Carrots can be washed, peeled and chopped into chunks with chicken or pork bone soup, doubling the nutrition; cut into shredded fried meat, delicious flavor, fried into a brand of salty and sweet as you like; and carrot juice with water, malic acid, vitamin C, etc. through scientific and technological processing and refining can become a nutritious, tasty, thirst-quenching, young and old suitable for green health care drinks, is the modern drink in a unique.
The nutritional value of carrots is quite large, of which the content of carotene is among the highest in vegetables. Carotene in the small intestine by the role of enzymes, transformed into vitamin A. Vitamin A has to maintain the normal function of epithelial cells, prevent respiratory infections, promote human growth and development, and participate in the formation of optic violet and other important physiological role.
But carotene is a fat-soluble substance that can only be dissolved in fats and oils when it is transformed into vitamin A by the action of carotenoid enzymes in the human liver and intestinal wall, and absorbed by the human body. Such as raw food carrots, there will be 90% of the carotene to become the human body's "passer-by" and was excreted, and can not play a nutritional role. So carrots should not be eaten raw.
Eating carrots, fried or stewed than raw carotene absorption rate is higher,
Can eat more, harmless!
It has more nutritional value that will keep you healthy throughout your life:
1. Make your eyes bright and beautiful
Curious about why carrots can be good for your eyesight? The main reason is that vitamin A and beta carotene have the ability to promote the production of photoreceptor pigments in the eye, and can prevent night blindness, enhance the eye's ability to recognize color, and optimize eye fatigue and eye dryness, and carrots contain a lot of these nutrients.
2. Cancer prevention
A study in the United States of America for the Chicago area often eat carrots in the community found that only 2 cases of lung cancer were found in 500 people, and do not often eat carrots in the community is 7 times the cancer rate of the former; Canada's Columbia University Cancer Research Group has also been found in the experiments, carrots in the beta-carotene and vitamin A, which can reduce the cancer patients in the body 75% of the cancer-causing cells. 75% of cancer-causing cells in cancer patients. A paper published in the Journal of Cancer Research reported that consuming more beta carotene may be a good way to prevent prostate cancer.
3. Antioxidant
Carrots are rich in vitamins A, C, E, and beta-carotene, lycopene, are very good antioxidants, very few fruits and vegetables can be like carrots, has such a full range of antioxidant components, eat more carrots, you can save a lot of money to buy antioxidant vitamins.
4. Let the skin beautiful
Beta carotene in the human body into vitamin A, coupled with the original carrots have vitamin A, these two nutrients can enhance the integrity of the epithelial tissue and the growth of collagen cells to promote the synthesis of the skin so that the skin water beautiful, to prevent the skin from drying out.
5. Regulate immune function
Carrots have a variety of nutrients and antioxidant components, all have the function of regulating the immune system; carrots contain the quality of wood has to enhance the function of the body's immune system.
6. Prevent colds
Research has shown that when the body's carotene is insufficient, the mucous membranes of the respiratory organs such as bronchial tubes become more fragile and susceptible to colds.
7. Prevent cardiovascular disease
The Netherlands has done research on carrots, found that beta carotene can reduce the chances of heart disease in middle-aged and elderly people, and in recent years there have been studies to help lycopene to prevent cardiovascular disease good effect.
8. Prevent constipation
In fact, every kind of fruits and vegetables contain more or less some fiber, so all have the effect of preventing constipation, carrots are no exception. If you do not like the taste of carrots, add honey or other fruits and vegetables beaten into a comprehensive juice, can reduce its flavor.
9. Promote metabolism
The vitamin B complex in carrots gives it the ability to reduce stress, recover from fatigue, and also promotes metabolism, adding to your weight loss program!
Carrots can be eaten by all kinds of people
Carrots are a sweet, neutral ingredient that can be eaten by all kinds of people without burdening the body. It can also be eaten with the more cold cucumber mentioned above, or with seasonal bamboo shoots, all of which have the effect of neutralizing the nature of the ingredient
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