Carrots - the record among all vegetables for the content of nutrients. About what vitamins can be found in carrots you can write a whole medical treatise, but we still try to laconically and expediently describe its indescribable use.
General facts
Carrots came to Europe in the X century, but then, no one was interested in its root crop. Carrots are appreciated for flowers and fragrant seed.
Today it is cultivated on all continents and practically in all countries. However, for unexplained reasons, it is not eaten in Georgia, and Georgians warn: if you are served a dish with a carrot and say that it's Georgian cuisine - do not believe it, they lie to you.
Composition
So, let's start a list of what vitamins, and not only vitamins are contained in carrots.
Vitamin composition:
- vitamins of group B;
- vitamin PP;
- vitamin C;
- vitamin E;
- vitamin K.
Thought we forgot about vitamin A ? It is not that simple. Carrots contain a huge amount of carotene - the precursor of vitamin A. In order to successfully synthesize and assimilate vitamin A, eating carrots should be combined with fat-containing foods - olive oil, sour cream.
Carrots are rich not only in vitamins, but also in minerals. List of minerals, impressively extensive:
- potassium;
- iron;
- chromium;
- phosphorus;
- nickel;
- cobalt;
- copper;
- iodine;
- zinc;
- fluorine.
With what vitamins contain carrots, now, everything is crystal clear. But there is another interesting category of useful substances - phytoncids.
Phytoncides are natural antibiotics that plants produce for their own protection. In many plants phytoncides show themselves a sharp odor, such as in onions and garlic. Carrots, though it has its own flavor, but clearly not threatening. However, in order to destroy vitamins in the oral cavity, it is enough to chew fresh carrots.
Beneficial features
Vitamins contained in carrots have a beneficial effect on the whole of our body.
For example, carotene facilitates the work of the lungs, is useful to girls during puberty, and, as is known, is the best food for our eyes. Freshly squeezed carrot juice is an excellent prevention and treatment for all eye diseases.
Carrot juice is treated with the following diseases:
- beriberi;
- liver disease;
- cardiovascular diseases;
- kidney;
- anemia;
- polyarthritis;
- colitis.
Raw carrots strengthen the gum, and carotene promotes the production of growth hormone, which is useful for children and people of all ages for the regeneration of the entire body.
Carrots are used for the prevention of cancer, as well as for the treatment of diabetes.
There remains only one question: why do children so carefully avoid colliding with this useful vegetable and neglect it in any form?