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Sunday, December 11, 2011

Carrot

Carrot is a somewhat long, orange coloured root vegetable. It is very helpful for our body especially for skins. It is also very tasteful and delicious. It also contains many carotenes, which cause its orange colour.

It is a biennial plant. The part, which we eat as carrot, is mainly the plant's taproot.



It mainly contains a lot of VITAMIN A. Each 100 g carrot contains:
Calories: 41 kcal
Carbohydrate: 9 g
Sugar: 5 g
Dietary fibre: 3 g
Fat: 0.5 g
Protein: 1 g
VITAMIN A: 835 I. U.
VITAMIN B1: 0.04 mg
VITAMIN B2: 0.05 mg
VITAMIN B3: 1.2 mg
VITAMIN B6: 0.1 mg
VITAMIN B9: 19 I. U.
Iron: 0.66 mg
Magnesium: 18 mg
Phosphorus: 35 mg
Potassium: 240 mg
Sodium: 2.4 mg

Carrot contains a lot of VITAMIN A, which helps to prevent many diseases like blindness. It also helps to digest foods easily. Lake of VITAMIN A causes skin diseases. Carrot has many useful uses for beauty. It helps to make the body-skin soft and handsome. If children eat carrots regularly, their teeth do no problem when plucked (which happens naturally). It helps them to digest milk easily. The juice of carrot is also helpful for brain. It has some elements, which makes the colour of the face white and increase the beauty.

It is better to eat carrot uncooked because its vitamins and minerals are a little scale destroyed when cooked. It is mainly used in salads. Massive eating of carrot may cause carotenosis. This is a kind of disease. If this disease attacks anyone, his/her skins become orange coloured. Therefore, to prevent this disease, we should not eat many carrots. It is also harmful for those who are suffering from kidney and gall-bladder stones because it helps to create stones.
It is also rich in dietary fibre, anti-oxidants and minerals. It contains potassium, sodium, phosphorus etc. that are important for our health.
Its seeds contain a kind of oil, which smells sweet. It is yellow or amber-colour to pale orange-brown. It also contains some helpful elements like his root. The main thing it contains is carotol.
Carrot is also used for facial in beauty parlours.

We should eat carrot measured, not over-eating, as it cause a disease. It does not mean that we should not eat carrot. We should eat carrot regularly measured.

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