Familiar vegetables like carrots, beets or potatoes are not only nutritious and tasty, they have a number of useful properties and have an optimal calorie content.
The biochemical composition of carrots characterizes it as a product rich in various minerals that help to improve health from a very young age. Carrots are rightfully considered one of the most popular vegetables, second only to potatoes. However, unlike the latter, this root vegetable can be consumed raw.
Benefit and only
The most common type of carrot is sowing, this biennial plant has a whitish or orange root. Carrots contain many minerals useful for the human body, helping to strengthen the immune system. These minerals are potassium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, copper, iodine, zinc, fluorine.
Carrots contain carotene, this substance in the body is converted into vitamin A. It is with this effect that the well-known property of carrots is associated with helping people with eye diseases. It strengthens the retina, reduces fatigue, and localizes pain syndromes.
To strengthen the gums, it is helpful to chew on carrots.
Carrots protect the figure
Carrots are a low-calorie food product. 100 grams of fresh vegetable contains only 35 calories. Boiled carrots without any additives have a slightly lower calorie content of 25-29 kcal.
It has been calculated how many calories the selected varieties have. For example, red carrots will fill the body with 33.8 kilocalories, and white Japanese carrots, which are akin to radishes, only 28, 22 kcal.
Obviously, carrots in the composition of dishes, even those where they are the basis, acquire a different calorie content. For example, eating 100 grams of Korean carrot salad, you can easily gain 232 kcal. The dish has such a calorie content due to the addition of sugar, vegetable oil, vinegar.
A traditional carrot casserole has 128 calories and 5% fat. Carrot-apple juice - 68 kcal, and carrot jam - more than 280. Summing up, we can say that carrots - raw and boiled - are a fairly low-calorie product. It is difficult to say how many calories the carrots, which are cooked in soups and borscht, share, it is conventionally considered that an ordinary borscht on beef broth has 100 kcal per 100 grams.
Orange vegetable has a little secret: boiled, it contains much more nutrients than raw. This is probably the exception to the rule in the vegetable world. Cooked carrots have three times the amount of antioxidants that protect the body from cancer cells.
Carrots are widely used for the prevention and treatment of vitamin deficiencies, for improving nutrition in diseases of the heart, kidneys and liver.
To cleanse the blood and remove toxins from the body, it is recommended to drink freshly squeezed juice from carrots on an empty stomach. Such consumption of carrots will improve metabolism and the functioning of internal organs.
