Benefits of carrots

Among other types of vegetables, carrots, including the most popular vegetables many people, both adults and children - children. Sweet flavor and crunchy texture, perfect healthy meal made. If you do not like this bunny's favorite vegetables, you are the losers in the group. Because, you lose a lot of benefits provided to health carrots.
Hearing the word "carrot" which in English is called carrot, we must immediately thought of the orange fruit and elongated shape, and one of them pointed. Carrots belong to the vegetable plants in the biological sciences, carrots included in the family Apiaceae.
Edible part of carrot is the root or roots. Carrots are Biennial plant life cycle from 12 to 24 months who are capable of storing large amounts of carbohydrates for the flowering plants in the second year. Flower stem grows to a height of about 1m, with white flowers.
Carrot or the Latin language is called Daucus carota vegetable plants can be grown throughout the year. Especially mountain area that has cold air temperature and humidity. Carrot plants require sunlight and can grow in all seasons. Carrots have a wet leaf stems that form a set of stem (petiole) that emerged from the top of the fruit base (root tuber), like celery leaves.
According to botanists, carrot (Daucus carota) can be categorized into several types, including:
* Type of imperator, the carrot that has a long-sized tuber roots with tapered tip and it was less sweet.
* Type chantenang, the carrot that has roots tubers elliptical and sweet taste.
* Type of Mantes, which is a combination of carrots results of carrots and chantenang imperator. Tuber roots typical orange-colored carrots.
Here is a list of the benefits of carrots you need to know. Who knew there was a recipe that you need.
* Carrots are the most popular types of vegetables keduya after potatoes. Carrots contain vitamin A is high. Vitamin A and Beta carotene sometimes - sometimes prescribed for the same thing, because beta carotene is converted in the body into vitamin A. Beta carotene alone included in the group has identified karotenoida and there are more than 600 different types of carotenoids. Among other well-known health world is carotene, lutein, and lycopen.
* Beta carotene is an important part of the carotenoids. If the body were given beta-carotene intake the body will form the vitamin A as needed so that the body eating carrots makes a safe way to get vitamin A.
* Prevent cancer.
* Compared with other vegetables, carrots mostly contain beta carotene, average - average 12,000 IU; experts recommend 15,000 to 25,000 IU per day. This is related to the high content of beta carotene can prevent cancer, because the nature of work antioksidanya destructive fighting cells - cancer cells. Besides beta-carotene helps the immune system to produce "killer cells" natural.
* Prevent Blindness Dusk and Improve Vision
* Carotene is also good for eye health. Helps prevent night blindness and weak eyesight improve. Lack of vitamin A or who is known in medical terms as vitaminosis A, can cause night blindness or night blindness.
* Lowers Blood Cholesterol
* In the carrot also contains pectin is good for lowering blood cholesterol. High fiber is also beneficial to prevent constipation. With the potassium content in carrots, can help neutralize the acid in the blood and liver vitamin A helps eliminate toxins in the body.
* Carrots raw or cooked is a source of potassium and vitamin C. Obtaining and ate carrots is so easy, can be mixed in a variety of food, drink juice or supplements.
Well, to gain maximum benefit carrot that must be considered is to choose the carrot jelly. Select a color carrots rather young and bright. This indicates that the carrot is still young and fresh. (Source: Delicious 081/IV/23 Edition May - June 5 2007/Dv/Ijs)