Carrots are known as "scholar ginseng" and are deeply loved by children because of their rough appearance, color and taste.
According to relevant data, each carrot 100g contains 19 mg of calcium, 23 mg of phosphorus, 1.9 mg of iron, 6 mg of vitamin C, 0.3 mg of nicotinic acid, 3 mg of b- carotene, nine amino acids such as protein, alanine, aspartic acid and lysine, and more than a dozen enzymes.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that β -carotene is a kind of provitamin A, which plays a significant role in protecting vision, promoting children's growth and development, reducing blood lipids, and enhancing the body's disease resistance and anti-aging ability. It can eliminate oxygen free radicals, enhance human immune function, reduce or prevent the generation of cancer cells, and has the effects of antioxidation and anti-induced changes. Practice has proved that carrots have natural effects such as lowering blood pressure, strengthening heart, diuresis, anti-inflammatory and antiallergic.
Carrots can be washed, peeled and chopped, and boiled with chicken or pig bones to double the nutrition; Shredded pork can be fried, delicious, and fried into salty and sweet at will; Carrots are squeezed into juice and mixed with water, malic acid and vitamin C. Refined by science and technology, it has become a nutritious, delicious and thirst-quenching green health drink suitable for all ages in Xian Yi, and it is a unique modern drink.
The nutritional value of carrots is quite great, and the content of carotene is among the best in vegetables. Carotene is converted into vitamin A by enzymes in the small intestine. Vitamin A has important physiological functions such as maintaining the normal function of epithelial cells, preventing and treating respiratory infections, promoting human growth and development, and participating in the formation of rhodopsin.
However, carotene is a fat-soluble substance. Only when it is dissolved in oil can it be converted into vitamin A under the action of carotene enzyme in human liver and intestinal wall and absorbed by human body. If carrots are eaten raw, 90% of carotene will become a "passer-by" of the human body and be excreted, which will not play a nutritional role. So carrots should not be eaten raw.
When eating carrots, the absorption rate of carotene fried or stewed is higher than that of raw carrots.
You can eat more, it won't hurt!
It has more nutritional value to keep you healthy all your life;
1. Make your eyes bright and moving.
Curious about why carrots can help eyesight? Mainly because vitamin A and beta carotene have the ability to promote the formation of eye photosensitive pigments, and can prevent night blindness, strengthen the color discrimination ability of eyes, and also optimize the problems of eye fatigue and dry eyes, and carrots contain a lot of these nutrients.
Cancer prevention
A study in the United States on the carrot-eating groups in Chicago found that only two cases of lung cancer were found among 500 people, while the incidence of cancer in the carrot-eating groups was seven times that of the former. The cancer research team of Columbia University in Canada also found in the experiment that beta carotene and vitamin A in carrots can reduce 75% of cancer-causing cells in cancer patients. A paper published in the Journal of Cancer Research reports that eating more beta carotene may be a good way to prevent prostate cancer.
3. Antioxidant activity
Carrots are rich in vitamins A, C, E, β -carotene and lycopene, and they are quite good antioxidants. Few fruits and vegetables contain such comprehensive antioxidant components as carrots. If you eat more carrots, you can save a lot of money on antioxidant vitamins.
Make your skin beautiful
Beta-carotene is converted into vitamin A in human body. Together with the original vitamin A of carrot, these two nutrients can enhance the integrity and growth of epithelial tissue, promote the synthesis of collagen cells, make skin soft and beautiful, and prevent skin cracking.
5. Adjust immune function
Many nutrients and antioxidant components of carrot have the function of regulating immune system; The lignin contained in carrots can improve the body's immunity.
Prevent catching a cold
Studies have shown that when carotene is insufficient in the body, the mucosa of respiratory organs such as bronchus will become more fragile and easy to catch a cold.
7. Prevention of cardiovascular diseases
The Netherlands has done research on carrots and found that beta carotene can reduce the risk of heart disease in middle-aged and elderly people. In recent years, there are also reports about the good effect of lycopene in preventing cardiovascular diseases.
8. Prevent constipation
In fact, every kind of fruit and vegetable contains some fiber, so it can prevent constipation, and carrots are no exception. If you don't like the taste of carrots, adding honey or other fruits and vegetables to make a comprehensive juice can reduce its taste.
9. Promote metabolism
Vitamin B in carrots can relieve stress, restore fatigue, promote metabolism, and add points to your weight loss plan!
Carrots can be eaten by all kinds of physique.
Carrots start with sweet and flat ingredients, which can be eaten by anyone with any physique and will not burden the body. It can also be eaten with the aforementioned cold cucumber or seasonal bamboo shoots, both of which have the function of neutralizing the tonality of ingredients.