Carrots are a crunchy, flavorful, nutritious, home-cooked vegetable, known as the "little ginseng". Carrots are rich in sugar, fat, volatile oil, carotene, vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, anthocyanins, calcium, iron and other nutrients.
Each 100 grams of carrots, containing about 0.6 grams of protein, 0.3 grams of fat, 7.6-8.3 grams of sugar, 0.6 milligrams of iron, vitamin A original (carotene) 1.35-17.25 milligrams of vitamin B10.02-0.04 milligrams of vitamin B20.04-0.05 milligrams of vitamin C12 milligrams of vitamin A, 150.7 kilojoules of calories. Also contains pectin, starch, inorganic salts and a variety of amino acids.
All kinds of varieties, especially the deep orange carotene content is the highest. American scientists have confirmed: eat two carrots a day, can make the blood cholesterol reduced by 10% -20%; eat three carrots a day, help prevent heart disease and tumors.
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1. Benefit the liver and eyesight
Carrots contain vitamin A and beta-carotene, which has the ability to promote the production of photoreceptor pigments in the eye, and can prevent night blindness, enhance the ability of the eyes to recognize color, and can also reduce eye fatigue and eye dryness.
2. Laxative
Carrots contain plant fiber, absorbent, in the intestinal tract, the volume is easy to expand, is the intestinal "filling material", can strengthen the peristalsis of the intestinal tract, so as to laxative anti-cancer.
3. Anti-allergy
Japanese food and nutrition scientists have found that beta-carotene in carrots can effectively prevent skin allergies to pollen and allergic dermatitis and other allergic diseases, and beta-carotene can also regulate intracellular balance, strengthen the body's anti-allergic ability, so that the body is not easy to allergic reactions.
4. Favorable health and longevity
Carrots have the effect of removing phlegm, eliminating food, removing flatulence, and lowering gas. Relevant experimental results have proved that carrots in the α-carotene has the inhibition of tumor cells is 10 times more than β-carotene, but also on the prevention of abnormal changes in DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) effect is also very strong. More than a decade ago, a study found that the higher the concentration of alpha-carotene in the blood, the lower the risk of heart disease in the subjects. According to a 14-year follow-up by CDC researchers, people with higher levels of alpha-carotene in their blood had longer life spans.
The foods with the highest levels of alpha-carotene are carrots. Pumpkins, oranges, and mandarins also contain high levels of alpha-carotene. alpha-carotene is not afraid of high-temperature steaming, and cooking carrots in broth, as long as you drink the broth with it, doesn't cause a significant loss of alpha-carotene. On the contrary, cooked food is more conducive to the absorption of various carotenoids, as long as a small amount of fat can achieve the effect of full absorption.
5. Prevent vascular sclerosis, lower blood pressure and reduce heart disease
Carotene contains quercetin, kaempferol can increase coronary blood flow, reduce blood lipids, promote the synthesis of adrenaline, and thus have the role of lowering blood pressure and strong heart. Carrots contain potassium succinate, which helps to prevent vascular sclerosis, reduce cholesterol and have the effect of lowering blood pressure. Folic acid in carrots can reduce the incidence of coronary heart disease. Hypertensive people drink carrot juice, have a very good effect on lowering blood pressure. Eat more carrots of the population, than eat less carrots of the population, heart disease cases almost 50% less.
6. Enhance immune function
Carotene can be converted into vitamin A in the body, which helps to enhance the body's immune function, and plays an important role in preventing epithelial cell cancer. Lignin in carrots can also improve the body's immunity and indirectly destroy cancer cells.
7. Prevent colds
Carrots contain a strong immunity to a substance, it is lignin, which can improve the body's ability to macrophages, reduce the cold.
8. Beautiful face
A German study showed that carrots contain antioxidant carotene, high concentration of antioxidants in the skin, wrinkles significantly less than the low concentration of antioxidants in the skin.
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