Carrots are a very healthy vegetable known to everyone. Moreover, he uses both "tops" and "roots". Carrots can be used both fresh - in salads and in preparations or for preparing first and second courses (and sometimes desserts).
The benefits of carrots
A bright orange vegetable contains many vitamins necessary for us, in particular, vitamins of group B, vitamin A and beta-carotene, as well as E, C and K. It is quite interesting to note that there is also protein in carrots - a little, of course, only 1, 3%. This vegetable also contains a unique complex of trace elements - cobalt, copper, chromium (which is necessary to control the desire to eat sweets), zinc - a male trace element, potassium, iodine and many others.
Beta-carotene, which is a precursor of vitamin A - retinol and has a positive effect on lung function. Vitamin A belongs to the “beauty vitamins” and is essential for skin, hair and nails. Retinol also strengthens the retina of the eye. Why did we pay attention to this? Because now we spend a lot of time with gadgets, and our eyes suffer.
As mentioned above, carrots contain chromium, which helps control sugar cravings. It is regrettable, but very often we have a deficiency of this trace element in our body. To a certain extent, carrots help solve this problem. Carrot juice is a real vitamin cocktail. It can be used for both medicinal and prophylactic purposes. By the way, carrot juice can be dripped into the nose - it contains phytoncides and antimicrobial substances.
Carrots are shown to all owners of dry skin, and you can both eat its food and make masks with various additives - oatmeal, egg white or yolk, oil - whatever you have enough imagination for.
Carrot juice improves digestion, normalizes the nervous system, increases immunity, weakens the toxic effect of drugs on the body - and this is not all the useful properties of carrots. Despite the fact that it is very tasty and healthy, carrots are quite low-calorie product - only 41 kcal per 100 g.
