Carrots are good, almost everyone on earth knows, but how to "eat into the stomach, into the nutrients", there are a lot of people are not too clear. There are a few misconceptions about eating carrots, let's take a look:

1. Vegetables eaten raw, the nutrition will not run out, so carrots should also be eaten raw to have nutrition.

Wrong. Although the carrot is a vegetable, but the carotenoids contained in the fat-soluble, and lipids combined with the enzyme can be dissolved, cooking carotenoids are more stable, the basic nutritional science shows that China's stir-frying method can be preserved 76% to 94%. Therefore, raw carrots, carotenoids due to the absence of fat and difficult to absorb, resulting in waste. By the same token, simmered liver tip, clear fried chicken liver is more conducive to the absorption and utilization of vitamin A than salt water liver.

2. Eating too much vitamin A can be toxic, so carrots should not always be eaten.

Wrong. Excessive intake of vitamin A (cod liver oil, winterized dog's liver) will be toxic symptoms, mainly manifested as anorexia, excessive agitation, bone pain, limitation of limb movement, thinning hair, hepatomegaly, muscle stiffness, itchy skin, headache, dizziness, adults long-term daily intake of greater than 15,000 micrograms of retinol equivalents can be toxic. However, after a large intake of carrots, in addition to the accumulation of fat in the skin to make it yellow (can disappear after stopping), has not been found to have other toxicity; on the contrary, the carotenoid cancer inhibition role than vitamin A is more people's attention because of its antioxidant effect, often eat carrots can reduce the incidence of lung cancer, gastric cancer, prostate cancer.

So, when we eat carrots, we should pay attention to cooking methods, such as vegetarian fried carrots, carrot slices with yam slices fried meat, beef stewed carrots and potatoes, etc., can make β-carotene is absorbed by the body, while the raw food can only increase the burden on the digestive system, even if it is a "small ginseng! "can only" through the intestine "over.