Carrots

First, the healthiest way to eat a carrot might be to cook it , and not eat it raw. A raw carrot has a lot of material that our bodies can't digest, so by cooking it, the process allows us to actually get more antioxidents and nutrition. An experiment was done where the carrots were cooked and then stored for a month. It showed that for the first week of storage after cooking, the value seemed to increase and did not stop increasing until the start of the second week, where it continually fell from weeks two to four.

When the plant is cut with a knife prior to harvesting it causes stress and the stress causes the plant to release even more nutrients to the vegetable.

"Carrots have the highest content of beta carotene (vitamin A) of all vegetables.

When they were first planted, carrots were a medicine, not a food.

Carrots come in different colors of red, white, yellow, and purples.

The first vegetables to be canned for sale were carrots.

The USDA said that people who ate 2 carrots a day lowered their cholesterol by 20%.

• Nine carrots have the same amount of calcium as a glass of milk.

Rabbits in the wild don't eat carrots.

The energy you need to walk three miles can be gotten from three carrots.

You can make about seven ounces of carrot juice with one pound of carrots.

• Try using a large cool carrot the next time your baby is teething.

Cooked carrots are rated at 49 in the Glycemic Index.

• Next time you run out of coffee, try some roasted carrots.

Thank you to the Carrot Museum !

One more thing, it is true that you can discolor your skin from eating too many carrots, or drinking too much carrot juice. If you are eating a lot of carrots don't eat or drink them all at once. Spread it throughout the day.

Serving : 1 medium carrot, calories 35, fats and cholesterol 0, sodium 40mg, carbs 8g, fiber 2g, sugar 5g, protein 1g, vitamin A is 270%, vitamin C is 10% , calcium is 2%, iron is 0 , on a 2000 cal diet.