Is carrot good or bad, and what are its healing properties? Discussion is useful carrots.

Carrots are an excellent source of a large number of vitamins and trace elements.

• phytoene;
• phytofluene;
• lycopene;
• carotene;
• essential oils;
• vitamins of group B;
• vitamin D;
• pantothenic and ascorbic acids;
• anthocyanins;
• umberberlsfron;
• lysine;
• flavnoid;
• ornithine;
• histidine;
• cysteine;
• asparagine;
• threonine;
• proline;
• methionine;
• calcium;
• zinc;
• magnesium;
• selenium;
• phosphorus.

Carrots also contain a large amount of glucose, so it has such a sweet taste. Also in it is starch, pectins, fiber.

The most useful is a ripe carrot, it contains all the useful substances in the maximum amount.

Benefits of carrots for the body

A feature of carotene, contained in carrots in large quantities - is that it does not break down during heat treatment. That is, even in boiled or fried form, carotene is absorbed by the body, where it turns into retinol.

However, for this, the body must contain fats even in a small amount, since the vitamins contained in the carrot dissolve in it and are absorbed better.

This is not the only useful property of carrots. It is useful to know the following:

• Scientifically proven that a large number of useful elements are contained in the peel, so it is recommended not to clean it, and before use, rinse thoroughly with running water.
• The composition of carrots is a big share of water, which makes it very useful for the intestines, and this significantly affects the entire work of the entire body.
• Carrots are indispensable for diets, since any restriction of food leads to a lack of vitamins and trace elements in the body. Orange root contains them in large numbers and helps to maintain a full-fledged working system of all body systems.
• Regular use of carrots helps to maintain and even improve eyesight. The classic manifestation of a lack of vitamin A, which is in the root crop - the so-called, night blindness, when a person sees badly in the dark and twilight.
• The substances contained in the root substance dissolve stones in the gallbladder.
• Helps to strengthen the immune system, making the body more resistant to disease.
• Has antiseptic and anti-inflammatory effect, so it is useful to eat carrots with indispositions, especially in case of stomach diseases. Grated root crops are good for burns and purulent wounds.
• A large amount of the product has a laxative effect. This property can be used if it is necessary to clean the intestines of slags.
• Use as a tonic silt lotion for the face, allows you to refresh your skin and make it soft and silky.
• Carrots are an ideal natural remedy for worms.
• Strengthens the intestinal peristalsis.
• Drinking juice helps to relieve fatigue, improve appetite and complexion.

Due to this, it is possible to use vegetable as an auxiliary aid in the treatment and prevention of the following diseases:

• cholelithiasis (renews kidney and liver cells);
• stomatitis and inflammation of the mouth (you need to rinse your mouth with diluted carrot juice);
• anemia (due to iron content);
• hypertension (low blood pressure);
• oncology (scientists have proved that regular consumption of root vegetables reduces the risk of cancer by 40%);

How to preserve the useful properties of carrots?

However, it is known that many vitamins are destroyed by heat treatment, for example, if the vegetable is cooked or fried. Fiber at high temperature breaks down into simple sugars, the large use of which leads to fatness. Therefore, the preparation of carrots should be approached very carefully. So, it is necessary to grind the carrot just before cooking, because it clears up quickly.

When cooking some of the vitamins break down, however, in order to better preserve vitamin C, you should put the vegetable directly into boiling water and maintain a uniform boil throughout the cooking. The lid of the dishes must be closed, and under it should be as little free space as possible.

You can eat dried carrots. It will no longer have vitamin C, but will remain: carotene, vitamin A, mineral salts.

With regard to cooking methods, frying most gently affects the carbohydrates contained in carrots than cooking. Most of the microelements die in the process of extinguishing. At the same boiled carrots are much more calorie fresh.

What is harmful to carrots for the human body

Limit the use of orange root crops in several cases:

•   - to prevent overabundance of vitamin A in the body, which is very toxic in case of an overdose;
• if there is, high acidity of the stomach, colitis;
• if there is an allergy to the vegetable.

Overeating carrots leads to the so-called "carotid jaundice" - the skin acquires an orange tinge. However, this does not represent any danger to health, it is enough to stop eating carrots for a while and everything will pass. Yellowing of the skin is not due to the presence of carotene, but to the fact that the slags in the liver and the aisles begin to dissolve. If they were in the body a lot, then the intestines and kidneys can not cope with the removal of waste and slags come out through the skin. They have an orange or yellow hue.

Drink only fresh squeezed carrot juice. A packaged beverage can contain a huge amount of additives, flavors and colorants that destroy all useful properties.

As such harm to the body of carrots its juice can not cause, the main thing is to observe the measure and not drink more than 2 liters of juice per day. If you want to use root in the treatment, it is worth consulting with a doctor.

Excessive consumption of carrots or juice from it can lead to lethargy and drowsiness.

Useful than carrot juice

Usually, with flu or cold, doctors recommend eating as much as possible onion and garlic, because they have antiseptic effect. However, these products leave a strong smell. It's scary to imagine what will happen if everyone around during the epidemic follows such recommendations.

Carrot juice has no less useful properties, but does not leave an unpleasant odor and has a sweet taste. At the same time, it not only increases vitality and strengthens the immune system, but also improves the process of hematopoiesis and cleanses the body.

If you regularly drink a glass of carrot juice, you can lower cholesterol and remove heavy metals from your body that adversely affect your health.

Carrot juice is especially useful for women, because it accelerates the synthesis of female sex hormones and allows longer to remain young and attractive. In men, after drinking this drink, potency improves. Also, representatives of the stronger sex can drink orange juice to relieve tension after a strong physical load.

The composition of root vegetables also contains daukosterol. It is an endorphin that acts on the pleasure center in the brain, making the person satisfied and happy. Therefore, when a stressful situation occurs, it is not superfluous to drink a glass of carrot juice.

The simplest step-by-step recipes from carrots

To imagine carrots without a daily diet is difficult - so tightly it entered the life of modern man. Many dishes without this root crop lose their catchy taste. Culinary specialists from around the world recognize carrots as an important element in cooking. From it you can do almost anything - from juice to cake.

Thanks to the use of seasonings and additional ingredients, carrots can be completely different. Consider the simplest from the point of view of cooking:

Korean carrot

To prepare this simple, but many favorite salad will need:

• 1 kg of carrots;
• a teaspoon of salt;
• a tablespoon of sugar;
• 50 ml of vegetable oil;
• dry seasonings to taste;
• clove of garlic;
• vinegar.

The cooking process will take no more than 40 minutes. Sequencing:

1. Grate the carrots on a special grater.
2. Sprinkle with sugar, salt, pour vinegar, mash the mixture with hands and leave for 15 minutes to let the vegetable juice.
3. To taste, add black and red pepper, mix thoroughly.
4. Warm the vegetable oil (can be in the microwave), pour the mixture and mix again.
5. Squeeze the garlic, add to the carrots and leave the dish to languish for at least 12 hours.

Carrot in Korean perfectly copes with the desire for something sharp. In addition, it is a good side dish to any meat or vegetable dish.

Salad with raw carrots with walnuts

To prepare this dish you need to take:

• 1 kg of carrots;
• 2 tablespoons of honey;
• a handful of walnuts (you can also use almonds, hazelnuts, peanuts);
• a teaspoon of olive oil.

Preparation consists of simple steps:

1. On a small or large grater (if desired) grate the carrots.
2. Pour in the vegetable oil.
3. Grind the nuts and fry without oil.
4. Add the nuts to the salad.
5. Warm the honey in a water bath and pour into the mixture.

A simple but very useful salad is ready! It can be eaten for breakfast, as well as a salad perfect for baby food - honey in the composition makes the dish sweet, which is sure to appeal to the kids.

Cabbage with carrots

The combination of these two vegetables is one of the most affordable. At the same time, dishes that simultaneously contain carrots and cabbage are very useful and perfectly complement any meal. The simplest, but rich in vitamins prescription is a cabbage salad with carrots. It is usually served in school cafeterias.

Ingredients:

• half a kilo of chopped white cabbage;
• 1 carrot;
• salt to taste (0.5-1 teaspoon);
• 4 tablespoons of vinegar (to give a slightly different flavor you can use instead of the usual apple or rice);
• 1 tablespoon (without a slide) of sugar;
• oil to taste (olive, sunflower, linseed, etc.).

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Cabbage put in an enamel pot, add the vinegar and salt and put on a strong fire and warm 2-3 minutes, stirring constantly.
2. Grate the carrots on a large, shallow or special grater for a Korean carrot.
3. Cool cabbage and add carrots to it.
4. Add sugar and vegetable oil, stir.
5. Put the mixture in the refrigerator for several hours, after draining the formed juice.

The dish is ready to serve!

Carrot cake from Armen Arnal

Few know how tasty carrots are. The most pleasant thing is that it can be made from the simplest ingredients. So, to make a carrot pie from Armen Arnal will be needed only:

• half a kilo of carrots;
• 200 gr. Sahara;
• 4 eggs;
• 50 ml of olive oil;
• 20 gr. baking powder;
• half a teaspoon of salt;
• 160 g. flour.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Grind carrots in a blender or grate on a fine grater.
2. Beat eggs with butter and sugar, add to carrots.
3. Knead the dough by adding flour and baking powder.
4. Pour the dough into a split form, baked with baking paper and put in a preheated to 180 degrees oven for 50 minutes. Readiness can be checked with a bamboo stick - it should remain dry if the dish is ready.
5. Let the cake cool and put on plates.

You can serve with cream, maple syrup, sour cream, dried fruits and nuts.

Carrot cutlets

This dish is an excellent solution for a vegetarian table. To prepare carrot chops need:

• half a kilo of carrots;
• 3 onions;
• a tablespoon of flour;
• 2 tablespoons mango;
• salt and spices to taste;
• vegetable oil for frying.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Wash and peel carrots, grate on a fine grater.
2. Finely chop the onions and mix with carrots.
3. Add flour, semolina, salt, spices, mix and let stand for half an hour.
4. To form small cutlets, before roasting to roll them in semolina - this will not allow them to disintegrate.
5. Fry the cutlets in vegetable oil until a rustic crust appears.

Serve this dish with sour cream, salad.

Useful video

A video about the beneficial properties of carrots in the program of Elena Malysheva

"A beautiful woman is sitting in a dungeon, and her braid is on the street." It is unlikely that there is a person in Russia who does not know the answer to this riddle. And it's even harder to imagine a person who has never eaten carrots. We know from childhood about the benefits of a vegetable, in which a huge amount of vitamins, we were told: if there is a lot of it, then you will grow up faster and you will see better. So what is unique about this wonder carrot?

Carrots are a two-year-old plant from the umbrella family. In our diet we use a cultivated, or inoculum, subspecies of wild carrots, which was originally grown in the Mediterranean. In ancient Greece, even more than 4 thousand years ago, they were familiar with the medicinal properties of carrots, it was considered a sacred plant. In the XVII century in different countries, carrots still belonged to delicacies. There is a legend that the gnomes changed the red beauty to gold bars, so it suited them to their liking.

Useful properties of carrots

Carrots contain a large number of vitamins, micro- and macro elements. It is very useful for the health of adults and children.

To understand what are the beneficial properties of carrots for children, let's see what it consists of at the molecular level:

Chemical composition (per 100 g carrots):

• Water - 88 g
• – 7 %
• Proteins - 1,3%
• Fats - 0.3%
• Vitamins:

1.   (beta-carotene) 9 mg
2.   (ascorbic acid) 5 mg
3. Vitamin PP - 1 mg
4.   (tocopherol) 0.6 mg
5. Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) - 0.07 mg
6. Vitamin B1 (thiamine) - 0.06 mg
7.   - 8 μg

Macro and trace elements:

• Potassium - 270 mg
• Sodium 156 mg
• Phosphorus 94 mg
• Calcium: 83 mg
• Copper - 80 μg
• Magnesium 38 mg
• Iron 7.4 mg
• Iodine - 5 μg

And also chrome, zinc, cobalt, fluorine, manganese, nickel, molybdenum.

The caloric content of carrots is about 35 kcal.

It is due to the rich composition of carrots is useful to all. It has long been used primarily as a medicinal plant and only then as a vegetable. First of all, carrots are known for containing carotene - provitamin A. Provitamin is a substance that, after certain chemical reactions in the body, turns into vitamin A. Yes and in translation from the Latin carota - "carrots". It is considered to be the main source of vegetable vitamin A (carotene). In the body, it promotes the growth and strengthening of bones, skin health, teeth and gums, hair; plays an important role in the functioning of the immune system, especially increases resistance; participates in the synthesis and regulation of hormones. Retinol is a component of the main visual pigment of rhodopsin. With its help, light turns into brain signals that allow a person to perceive the image. Retinol, being an antioxidant, provides protection of the body, since it acts as a structural component of cell membranes.

It should be noted that vitamin A is fat-soluble, so carrots should be consumed with a small amount of vegetable oil or sour cream to convert carotene to retinol.

Very useful and carrot juice. Our ancestors used it in the treatment of purulent wounds, burns, frostbite.

When should children give carrots?

For a child, vitamin A is simply necessary, and getting it is not difficult at all: just need to make a carrot a regular guest of the diet.

Carrot finely grate, add nuts, honey and stir. Salad can be decorated with cherries.

Carrot syrups

You will need: 300 g cottage cheese 9%, 100 g carrots, 4 tbsp. l. semolina, 1/3 tbsp. sugar, 10 g butter, 1/3 tbsp. flour and 1/2 eggs.

Butter butter in a frying pan, add the grated carrot and a little water, stew for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the mango, mix thoroughly and allow to cool.

We mix the cottage cheese, half of the egg, sugar, flour and stewed carrots. We make the balls from the resulting mixture, roll in flour and fry. We serve chilled syrniki with sour cream.

Salad for breakfast

Three on a large grater carrots and an apple, add raisins, pour sour cream. Stir and sprinkle with walnuts. Very tasty, fast, and most importantly - useful.

Bon Appetit! Health to you and your kids!

Today it is known to everyone, even to small children, that carrots are a very useful vegetable, it is a real treasure trove of vitamins and nutrients. Beauties from around the world exchange beauty recipes with carrots. Knowingly we are associated with her very warm feelings. In addition, people who eat carrots all their lives - long live, in particular Tibetan monks. Perhaps it is so tasty and useful that it is worth living for it.

For the first time about carrots are mentioned about 2 thousand years BC. The native land of the main varieties of root vegetables is Afghanistan and the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

It is known that previously carrots were grown not for food, but for fragrant leaves and seeds. Currently, about 60 species of this useful plant are known, spread all over the world, from Europe and America to New Zealand and Australia.

Composition of carrots

The use of carrots is determined by its unique composition. Certainly, carrots are rich in vitamin A, in small amounts there are ascorbic and pantothenic acids, flavonoids, essential amino acids. Root carrots contain in their composition also a lot of fiber, pectin substances and sugars, the predominant among them is glucose. Of the mineral salts, potassium salts predominate.

100 g of carrots contain the following substances:

13 useful properties of carrots

Contraindications to the use of carrots

Carrots, in addition to its innumerable useful properties, have a number of contraindications.

• carrots are contraindicated during peptic ulcer disease of the stomach and duodenum, as well as in the presence of inflammatory processes in the small intestine;
• when a characteristic color of the palms of a yellowish-orange hue appears after eating carrots, it is necessary to exclude it from the diet or to significantly reduce consumption;
• when abusing root vegetables, unpleasant side effects can occur: drowsiness, lethargy, headache and even vomiting;
• in the presence of allergies and individual intolerance of components in the composition of carrots, it is also worth limiting its use.

It is worth remembering that the daily dose of carrots is about 250-300 grams, this is 3-4 medium root vegetables.

Carrot has its capital - it's a small town Holtville in the USA. It is there that every year in February the Festival dedicated to this vegetable culture is organized. The beginning of the holiday is the election of the "carrot queen", and the program is full of culinary duels of the best chefs and ordinary citizens to prepare the best dish from carrots, competitions using carrots instead of sports equipment and much more.

Not everyone knows the fact that the tops of carrots are also edible, it can be safely added to soups, second courses or salads, and also to brew like tea.

The longest carrot in the world was carrots grown in the UK, its length was almost 6 m. But the weight of the heaviest carrot was 8.61 kg. And they raised her in Alaska.

What else is useful?

Hello, dear friends! Today's our conversation with you will be about a well-known vegetable with intriguing medicinal abilities - about carrots, what is its use and harm, what useful properties and contraindications it harbors, and also you will learn how to choose the right carrots and store properly.

If we are accustomed to the idea that carrots are common, common, growing in every vegetable garden and used by us in almost every dish as one of the ingredients, in ancient times carrots were treated much more respectfully for the benefit that it brings to health. Roman women used carrots, as we now eat candy, and the ancient Greeks treated carrot juice for any disease and believed that using carrot can fall in love quickly. In the 14th century, carrots of carrots, French women of fashion decorated their hairstyles ... And only much later the whole world appreciated the health benefits of this wonderful vegetable.

Composition and useful properties of carrots

We all know perfectly well about the beneficial effects of carrots on vision due to the beta-carotene contained in it - provitamin A. For most, this information limits the whole use of carrots, and in fact its composition and useful properties are much broader:

And let carrots in their vitamin-mineral composition not be a champion among other vegetables, but, combining in one tasty product, these useful substances can bring significant health benefits.

Let's understand the useful and medicinal properties of carrots.

1. Vision. If in the evening, at the onset of dusk, you notice that you see badly, this is the first symptom of vision problems and the development of "night blindness". To better see, regularly eat carrots, which is rich in provitamin A. Note: the best absorption of this vitamin helps vegetable, butter, cream or sour cream!

1. It is believed that two pieces of carrots contain a daily dose of beta-carotene (giving the carrots such a characteristic orange color), which is important not only, but also for the immune system. So, carrots will help to resist infections and viruses.

1. The use of carrots is high for women and children: vitamin A plays an active role in the development and growth of the baby in the womb, as, indeed, after his birth. It's not for nothing that carrots are recommended as one of the first vegetables for complementary foods for children. Therefore, pregnant and lactating women should necessarily have carrots in their diet (of course, in reasonable quantities).

1. If you want to have beautiful skin, nails and hair, strong teeth, not a stress-resistant nervous system, protect yourself from premature wrinkles and early aging, eat carrots. On such "miracles" with your appearance and health is able to exactly vitamin A in its composition! It is no accident that on the basis of carrots in cosmetology many masks for skin care have been developed.

1. The use of carrots for men lies in its positive effect on potency, pharmaceutical production even created a number of preparations based on this root crop, helping men to cope with this problem.

1. By the way, men are also useful carrot juice, which quickly restores strength after a great physical load.

1. Thanks to the useful composition of carrots, the digestive tract normalizes and carbohydrate assimilation improves. When the metabolism of carbohydrates is broken, the body begins to accumulate them in the form of visceral fat, due to what we "grow".

1. Fiber in the carrot improves the intestinal peristalsis, prevents the appearance of hemorrhoids and constipation, in addition, carrots help to clean the body of toxins and salts of heavy metals. And for people who are overweight, fiber, and hence carrots - an indispensable component of daily nutrition.

1. There is even an opinion that carrots are able to protect the children's body from. For this, the child needs to give 100g carrot juice every morning on an empty stomach.

1. Carrots are good for the heart and blood vessels. With the help of raw carrots, the level of cholesterol drops well in the blood, the risk of developing a stroke decreases by as much as 70%, the supply of the brain with blood is improved, and potassium in the composition of this root is known to improve the state of our vessels.

1. Antioxidant substances of carrots (to which, in particular, beta-carotene refers) help protect our body from oncology and hypertension, Parkinson's disease and rheumatoid arthritis, varicose veins and atherosclerosis. According to the Japanese doctors, if you constantly use carrots, a person will extend his life for as long as 7 years!

1. Diuretic and cholagogue properties of carrots, or rather, carrot juice, will help to clean the kidneys and bladder from the sand and protect, thus, from the appearance of stones in the kidneys and gall bladder. About carrot juice, I'll write a short article, you can subscribe to updates   , so as not to miss it.

1. Thanks to a lot of vitamins in carrots, it is recommended for hypovitaminosis and. To do this, just eat in the morning on an empty stomach for 100g pre-grated carrot, greased with sour cream or butter.

1. Carrots help to heal and relieve pain in purulent wounds, burns and ulcers on the skin. To do this, carrots rubbed on a grater and in the form of gruel superimposed on the damaged places. This procedure should be done every 20-30 minutes. with a new portion of carrot paste. With the help of carrot juice, the wounds are washed.

1. The carrots and inflammatory processes of the mucous membranes of the mouth have exactly the same beneficial healing properties. For this effect, you just need to rinse your mouth with a carrot drink diluted with water from time to time.

1. Carrots "in Korean"   will benefit the digestion, enhance appetite, the very way and the formula of its preparation helps to better assimilate its nutrients.

So much use of carrots, but sadly aware that carrots can in some cases cause damage.

Harm to carrots

• First of all, do not get carried away with boiled carrots. From different sources, we can find out that the amount of antioxidants in cooked carrots is one third more than in the raw. However, in the process of cooking (cooking) carrots, the remaining important nutrients are lost.
• Cooked carrots, like stew, are not the best product for those who are trying to lose weight, and suffering from high blood sugar. The problem is that the cellulose of cooked carrots in the process of cooking broke up into simple sugars, which caused a jump from 30 (as in raw) to 85! It turns out, using boiled carrots, we get a sharp increase in blood sugar levels, and behind him and insulin.

If you really want to eat cooked carrots, do not digest it. Correctly prepare it, having boiled 7 minutes in the boiled water.

• Do not use Korean carrots with ulcers and gastritis with high acidity - because of its severity, it can harm, provoking an exacerbation.
• And in general, carrots are not recommended for inflammation in the small intestine, as well.
• Some note that carrots, and even more often carrot juice, used in large quantities, lead to the appearance of headache, lethargy, drowsiness, nausea until vomiting.
• Carrots may have an allergy in the form of yellowing of the skin. Although this manifestation of the allergy to this vegetable does not cause any particular harm to health, it is still time to take a break in the use of this root vegetable. This suggests that the body is not able to process excess carotene and vitamin A. Especially children are characterized by such a manifestation of allergies.

Based on the benefits and harm of carrots, you can focus on the optimal amount of this vegetable - 250-300 grams per day (this is about 3-4 carrots).

Choose and store quality and healthy carrots

• To begin with, it is in mature carrots that the greatest content of beta-carotene is found.
• Bright orange carrots with a smooth surface, firm and even, weighing 150 g - is, you can say, an ideal and healthy root crop, from it your body will get the most benefit. Moreover, the brighter the fruit, the more it contains provitamin A. The growth in carrots and its deformation suggest that in the process of cultivation, the root crop was exposed to disease, and even to the effects of nitrates.
• Dense foliage can say that the root of the root is too big, and he himself is dry with a small amount of juice.
• Roots with blunt, rounded ends contain more juice, whereas cone-shaped ones, with a long sharp "tail" - are less juicy, although they are not inferior to each other in usefulness.

To properly store carrots, several conditions must be observed:

1. Before, you are going to store carrots in the fridge, put it in a plastic bag. If you have a plastic box, place a paper towel on the bottom of it, and put root vegetables on it, then place the box in the refrigerator on the bottom shelf.

1. In a refrigerator it is better to put unwashed root crops - so they will last longer.

1. If you are going to send carrots to storage on a balcony, put it in a wooden box filled with onion husks, the husks will save the carrots from rotting. If you did not manage to stock up as much husk, simply dip the carrots into the onion broth, dry them and send them to a wooden box.

1. In the cellar or basement carrots are covered in large bags. These bags are installed vertically, without tying the neck.

1. There is also a secret to the preservation of carrots in the cellars: it is poured into wooden boxes, pouring in moist sand with chalk or slaked lime.

1. If you grate carrot and place it in the freezer, you can store it there for almost the whole winter.

1. The famous beta-carotene is stored in carrots in unchanged quantities throughout the winter.

Now, the benefits and harms of carrots are studied not only by specialists, but we all know about this issue. Do not overeat this bright orange vegetable, remember from time to time and other useful foods, diversify your diet and

Be healthy!

In the distant past, when people just started to cultivate carrots, the aroma of her leaves and seeds was valued. But soon the roots of this plant became appreciated, and now, with the word "carrots", we represent the orange root crop, which is often used in dietary nutrition. In carrots are collected many groups of vitamins and rare useful chemical elements.

The main useful substances in carrots are vitamins, it contains a large amount of provitamin A (carotene), which is embodied in our body in full. It should be noted that the human body alone does not know how to produce vitamin A, but its effect is huge, so we need carrots all year round.

Carotene - an indispensable element for the work of the organ of vision, that is, without it our vision is sharply reduced. The use of carotene for the skin is known - it regulates the work of the sebaceous glands, tones and cleanses the skin. Without this element, the work of the immune system is impossible - it participates in the construction of antibodies opposing pathogens of various kinds.

Of great importance, carotene, is for us because it is a powerful natural antioxidant. By binding to free radicals, it removes toxic substances and slags from the body that interfere with the proper metabolism in cells.

Thinking about whether carrots are useful for our body with other substances, we must note the presence of iron, potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, copper, iodine and zinc in it. Each mineral, in a unique way, acts on our body. For example: iron fights anemia, helping red blood cells connect with oxygen; Potassium and magnesium are necessary for the heart and blood vessels - they strengthen the walls of the capillaries and help to better transmit nerve impulses; phosphorus normalizes metabolic processes, helping to translate the energy of food into action energy; Copper is necessary for us for maintenance of protective properties, that is it is important in work of immunity.

Carrots are rich in vitamins of group B, E, K, C, PP, therefore, it has a general strengthening effect on the body, activates the fight against infectious agents and suppresses the growth of cancer cells.

How useful carrots for weight loss?

Carrots - the most common product, used with diets. Being in it, a full complex of vitamins of group B, will help to accelerate metabolic processes at the cellular level. Nicotinic acid (vitamin B3) triggers a mechanism of energy release, by "melting" fat stores. It should be noted that vitamins, group B, have a positive effect on the nervous system, therefore, losing weight on dishes with carrots, you will not experience irritability and nervousness.

Substances in raw carrots help to regulate carbohydrate metabolism. Therefore, if you are a sweetheart, raw carrots are the optimal solution in your diet.

Cooked carrots are used to lose weight, because it is rich in fiber and helps the intestines to work actively, removing from the body stool stones and excess water. Carrot cellulose acts as a drainage, through which all excess is excreted from the body. Of course, the coarse fibers of fiber are also contained in the raw product, but you can use a larger quantity in the boiled form, for example, using boiled carrots as a garnish.