Love carrots ... a strange expression and comparison of love with carrots for me is not clear. People, but where is the connection? Love is a good thing, but I dedicate this article to a carrot - a red beauty. "The beautiful woman is sitting in the dungeon, and the braid is on the street," since childhood I remember this puzzle, and, of course, the entire yard shouted that it was carrots. Carrots are very useful vegetables, and I want to reveal for you the theme " carrots, vitamins, nutritional value ."
And so, let's start again. Carrots are a two-year-old herbaceous plant from the umbrella family. It has a thickened fleshy root of various forms, size and color. Carrots are considered an ancient culture, and began to be cultivated 4,000 years ago as a medicinal and food plant. There are many varieties of carrots. Planted from early spring, you can also sow them and under winter. Seeds give a sunrise 2-3 weeks after sowing. Carrots are a cold-resistant plant that easily tolerates frosts up to -3 ... -50 ° C. The minimum temperature for germination of seeds is considered to be + 4 ... + 6С, optimum +18 ... + 21С, for growth of leaves + 23..25С. Carrot is a light-loving plant. In the shade, the harvest decreases. Carrots are quite sensitive to uniform and optimal hydration during all periods of their development. Very demanding to moisture in the period from sowing to emergence of sprouts and during intensive growth of root crops.
Carrot is different in that it is stored for a long time, and you can use it all year round. Carrots contain slightly more than 7% of sugars, provitamin A (carotene), vitamins B, C, E. And it is due to carotene carrots and orange, because the amount of carotene in carrots is 70-80%. And the peculiarity of this carotene is that it does not collapse during processing, and in the body during a chemical reaction, carotene is converted to retinol only if there are fats in the body, so it is recommended to use it with creamy or with vegetable oil. And when buying carrots, make sure that the carrots are bright orange, which means that they are more equipped with vitamins.
Also, carrots contain vitamins K, R, PP, calcium, phosphorus, iron, copper, manganese, kolbanat, various trace elements, niacin, bioflavonoids, inositol. From the seeds of carrots are allocated essential oils and daukarin. It turns out that carrots are rich in fiber, which improves the work of the gastrointestinal tract.
It is proved that most of the vitamins are in the peel, so it is not advisable to clean carrots, better thoroughly wash it before consumption, especially if it is a young fruit. On the benefits of the vegetable says and appearance, that is, carrots should be beautiful without cracks and spots. If there are spots and cracks on carrots, then this indicates that carrots are not the first freshness.
Do not be afraid to cook carrots, because when cooking, carrots do not lose their magic properties. If carrots are added to soups and stews, then its taste is not particularly noticeable, but its usefulness remains unchanged. And grated carrots are much more useful than just carrot juice.
Carrots are advised to eat with various diets, as carrots have many useful vitamins, due to which the body receives nutrients and can function properly. Just the carrots you need to eat with myocardial infarction and with cholelithiasis. Carrots have a beneficial effect on the sight of man. Carrots are especially recommended for pregnant and lactating mothers. It turns out that carrots dissolve stones and sand in the bladder. From carrots strengthened immunity, and the body becomes more resistant to colds, carrots have antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties.
Scientists have found that the life of a person directly depends on the work of his intestines. If the intestines work slowly and badly, then toxins are formed, which adversely affect the body, health and life of a person. It was found that the intestine works much better from a large amount of water in the intestine. A carrot contains a very large amount of water in itself. Dishes from carrots are desirable for strengthening intestinal peristalsis. Carrots perfectly help to remove worms. Carrot juice is drunk as a laxative, which helps very well to cleanse the intestines from the slag.
Just carrots help with inflammation of the mouth, including stomatitis, so you often rinse your mouth with diluted carrot juice. Grated carrots can also be used for external use from burns and purulent wounds.
It is known that carrot juice helps well from anemia. And even carrot juice is used as a tonic or lotion for the face, because the carrot juice makes the skin velvety and fills with freshness.
Use is good, and any product is harmful! In everything, as they say, there is good and bad. Carrots and carrot juice should not be consumed by people, or in very small quantities, suffering from cardiovascular diseases. Carrots are also forbidden in case of gastric and intestinal ulcers, gastritis, enteritis. And with obesity from carrot juice is absolutely worth abandoning. I want to warn you , if you eat too much carrots, then you can become carrots yourself, that is, the skin can take an orange tint, due to the fact that there are too many carotene in carrots!
Eat right and take care of your health! We have one, and it's impossible to buy it for no money!