Carrots are the most popular and versatile vegetable in the world! They can go with every vegetable or any grain. You can eat carrots in raw form as well as cooked form. Due to its sweetness nature, it can be served in the savoury as well as in sweet dish also.
Carrots have a wealth of valuable nutrition from regulating blood sugar levels to the cleaning of the kidneys to protecting our eyesight from damaging.
Carrots are available in different colours from orange to red to purple to yellow to white but in India, there is only orange and red colour are prominent. Carrots have their colour due to the presence of antioxidants called as carotenoids which helps the cells to fight against free radicals.
Carrots are known to have a powerhouse of vitamin A. It also gives sufficient amount of vitamin C, D, E, K and many minerals such as magnesium, potassium, and calcium.
MAGICAL BENEFITS OF CARROTS
• Enhancing your vision power – Carrots have beta-carotene which can be converted in the liver to vitamin A. This vitamin is transformed in the retina to a purple pigment which is necessary for the night vision.
• Cancer prevention – Carrots juice, in particular, its powerful chemicals falcarinol and luteolin reawaken the silent cancer suppressor gene and restore our body capacity to regulate cell division and destroy harmful cells.
• Anti ageing – As discussed above it has beta-carotene acts as an antioxidant which helps in slowing down the ageing of the cells.
• Healthy glowing skin – Antioxidants presents in them protects the skin from sun damage.
• Detox your body – Vitamin A helps the liver to flush out the toxins. It reduces the bile and fats in your liver and the fibre present in them help in clean the colon and the waste from the body.
• Reduces the chances of heart attacks - Regular consumption of carrots reduces cholesterol levels, it is a good idea to consume a healthy dose of carrots, in order to prevent heart-related problems.
• Lower the blood pressure – Carrots are rich in potassium thereby act as a vasodilator which means they can relax the tension in your blood vessels which leads to increase blood flow. Thus helping in preventing strokes, heart attacks, atherosclerosis.
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