Carrots and Its Health Benefits

Nigeria has abundance of carrots at affordable cost. So, it is my advice that you utilze this for the different health benefit it parades.

Carrots can be used in almost all the juice recipes. They are considered to be among the most nutritious foods on earth. In fact, no other vegetable contains as much carotene as carrots. When we consume carrots our body

Carrot Nutrition
Carrots are popular for the sweetness and crunch. They make an excellent hot or cold soup and delicious juices, either plain or mixed with orange or pineapple juices. They are also a favourite in raw salads, stews and stir-fries and make excellent crudités vegetables with dips.

Carrots are best known nutritionally for their high concentration of the vitamin A precursor, beta-carotene, the antioxidant that gives them their distinctive orange glow and its responsible for most of the health benefits of carrots.

Carrots have the highest carotenoid content of any vegetable and one serving contains more than 500% of the recommended daily allowance of vitamin A. They are also an excellent source of fibre, particularly soluble fibre. Carrots also contain Vitamin C and potassium. Carrots are also a significant source of carbohydrate energy.

Health Benefits of Carrots
Health benefits of carrots include the promotion of good vision and prevention of night blindness, cancer prevention, heart disease protection and healthy lungs.

Carrot Helps Promote Eye Problem
Promotion of good vision and prevention of night blindness is the great healing work that carrot does.
Carotenoid in carrots helps promote good vision and are particularly good for boosting night vision.

Beta-carotene has the potential to be converted to vitamin, which helps with the production of rhodopsin, the night vision pigment in the retina of the eye.
Beta-carotene can also help prevent cataracts and delay macular degeneration.

Urine Problems
Carrot is diuretic in action causing urination. So, it is used in scanty urination. It is used in nephritis as food medicine.

Carrot is a Remedy for Diarrhoea
Carrot soup is a natural remedy for diarrhoea. It checks the growth of harmful bacteria in the intestine and prevents vomiting. It helps in healing of intestinal ulcers.

Carrots Helps in Digestive disorders
Chewing carrots increases saliva which increases digestive enzymes, mineral and vitamins to prevent digestive disorders.
In juicing carrots you may discard the middle yellow part. Carrot juice contains effective food remedy for ailments like intestinal colic, appendicitis and peptic ulcer.

Carrots Helps in treating Thread worms
Carrots have the ability of removing thread worms from children. A cupful of grated carrots taken every morning for about three day can was out these worms.

Carrots Helps in Treating Constipation
250ml carrot juice with 50ml spinach and a little lemon juice is an effective treatment for constipation.

Tooth decay prevention
Chewing carrots cleanses and strengthens the teeth preventing bleeding of the gums and tooth decay.

Carrots Helps in treating Diabetes
Carrots contain an insulin-like hormone known as Tocokinin which have been found to be useful in diabetes.

Carrots Helps in Protection against heart Disease
Beta-carotene is a powerful heart protector. A large review study epidemiological studies on the link between heart disease and beta-carotene intake showed that eating a serving of carrot per day can reduce the risk of heart disease by up to 60%.

Carrots Helps in Cancer Prevention
Carotenoids have been found to offer protection against certain cancers, namely bladder, cervix, colon, prostrate and lung cancers.
Carrots may be particularly beneficial against colon cancer, due to the high presence of soluble fibre in carrots, which helps mop up carcinogens in the gut. Carrots also contain an antioxidant called falcarinol, which has been to help shrink precancerous lesions in the colon.

Carrots Help to Promote Lung Health
Beta-carotene has been shown to help protect the lungs from disease and studies have shown that people with emphyseama have vitamin A deficiencies.

Special Notes
Eating high concentrations of beta-carotene, from carrot juice for example, can lead to a condition called carotenemia, or high blood carotene levels. Carotenemia can turn the skin, especially on the palm of the hands, a bright orange colour. It is not known whether carotenemia carries any risk, but is probably harmless and disappears once beta-carotene intake is decreased again.