Health Benefits Of Carrots Juice

Babies love their sweet taste and like them like mashed or pressed than juice. We nibble it raw as a snack between meals or swing out fine in butter. From the soup, it is impossible to imagine, is each snowman to shame, and their shape inspired even fashion designers - Popper culture of the 80s coined the famous carrot pants. In short, The carrot is a real multi-talent. No wonder that the Orange poles today are the second most commonly grown vegetables in the European Union after tomatoes.

What is so special about carrots?

Already, the stone age hunter-gatherers lived on nutritious roots that dug up from the Earth. (Daucus carota) the carrot has arisen from the wild carrot then cultivated as a crop already for thousands of years--in Swiss Lake dwellings were found recently seeds dating to 2000 BC. The purple, yellow and white-colored varieties still found in markets, are however not new varieties, but the actual Protoplasts: red-violet and yellow carrots come from Afghanistan, white from the Mediterranean.

The current Orange carrot is probably caused by intersections in the Netherlands. The first evidence can be found for example in the painting market "woman with vegetable stand" by Pieter Aertsen from 1567. But too much of a good thing would be that the carrot "orange" national also donated our neighbors. This has to do with the Royal House of Orange, but that's a different story.

So what makes healthy the carrot?

Carrots are rich in beta carotene - a precursor of vitamin A - which displays strong antioxidant effects in our body: it starts off cell-damaging free radicals, resulting in the skin by ultraviolet radiation or in the lungs from tobacco smoke. The plant pigment also gives the popular carrot complexion babies. So that the body can more easily absorb beta carotene, carrots should be cooked, chopped and eaten with some fat, for example butter.

Also provide carrots iron, which is important for blood formation, as well as the minerals calcium, potassium, zinc, and vitamins C, K, and folic acid. Foliate includes the B vitamins and are essential for growth processes such as Cytogenesis and cell division. Finally, carrots provide much fiber for a healthy digestive system (it is important to: drinking lots!) - and all this with only 25 kcal per 100 grams!

How should carrots be stored?

Federal carrots are delicious and should be eaten directly. In the crisp, hold up to 10 days. Important: remove the green herb! Thicker washing carrots from the summer may be stored for up to four weeks, late winter carrots survive in the basement in wet sand, and well ventilated until the spring.

Tip:- Carrots are small cut and blanched will freeze.