Carrots ( Daucus carota ), rich in flavonoids and vitamins, are valuable foods to keep the intestines and eyes clear . Let's find out better.
Properties and benefits of carrots
Carrots are vegetables rich in carotenes, substances that the body uses for the production of vitamin A, important for various functions of the body, in particular for the visual function.
Whether you eat them cooked or raw is the same, because cooking does not affect the usefulness of the carotenes, as they are resistant to heat. Indeed, since most of the carotene is found in fiber, preparing them with a short cooking frees the beta-carotene from the fibrous cells.
Carrots are very indicated in infant feeding because they contribute to the absorption of liquids in the intestine. They are also a good source of flavonoids, antioxidant pigments that act positively on the cardiovascular system.
Calories and nutritional values of carrots
100 g of carrots contain 84 kcal / 351 kj.
Furthermore, for every 100 g of this product, we have:
- Water 79.7 g
- Carbohydrates 18.3 g
- Sugars 18.3 g
- Proteins 2.6 g
- Fats 0.5 g
- Cholesterol 0 g
- Total fiber 3.1 g
- Vitamin C 2 mg
Carrots, allies of
Intestine, cardiovascular system, eyes, body tissues, mucous membranes
Colored carrots and their properties
Curiosity about carrots
- If you buy a bunch of carrots with leaves, it's worth detaching them before putting them in the fridge. Why? The tuft of green leaves behaves like a kind of vampire: during storage it will suck the vitamins before you can eat the root.
- The rabbits are proverbial carrion-eating and among the famous rodents we find: Bugs Bunny, appears for the first time on the screens in 1940 in the Looney Tunes cartoons ; Tamburino, in reality he is a hare, is Bambi's best friend, on American screens for the first time in 1942 in the Walt Disney animated film, but he had been jumping around since 1923 in the pages of Felix Salten's novel entitled Bambi, A life in the woods ; Roger Rabbit, Italy discovered him in 1988 thanks to the film Who framed Roger Rabbit? ; Peter Coniglio was born in 1893 and is the protagonist of a famous series of illustrated fairy tales for children written by Helen Beatrix Potter; Mashimaro, plump rabbit of Korean origin, his name is a distortion of the soft and sugary sweets known as marshmallows.
- In ancient times carrots were used as fodder for animals and did not enjoy a good reputation, so that the term "carrots" was used to indicate false and lying news.
A recipe with carrots
The almond and carrot cake is an ideal dessert for refined palates, because it has a delicate and natural taste, does not weigh down, satisfy and crown the meal with a sweet note.
Ingredients:
- 500 g of carrots,
- 200 gr of peeled almonds,
- 3 eggs,
- 150 g of sugar,
- 150 g of flour,
- 1 packet of yeast,
- 50 g of butter.
- An important detail that you can decide to contemplate or not: 1 small glass of brandy.
The procedure is very simple: separate the yolks from the whites and whip the first with the sugar until they become frothy. Finely chop almonds and carrots and then add them to the whipped egg yolks. Then add all the other ingredients, finally the whipped and whisked egg whites. Pour everything into a buttered and floured mold and cook at 180 ° for about 40 minutes. After leaving to cool, decorate with icing sugar. You can place decorative cinnamon curls or a few balls of cream on the cake.
