BENEFITS OF CARROTS

⒈ beneficial to health and longevity
Carrots have to phlegm, digestion, in addition to the role of expansion and the next breath Dingchuan. Related experimental results show that carrots in the α-carotene has inhibition of tumor cells is 10 times as much as β-carotene, and the prevention of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) abnormal changes in effect is also very strong. As early as 10 years ago, studies have found that the blood concentration of α-carotene, the higher the risk of subjects with lower heart disease. According to the United States CDC researchers a 14-year follow-up survey found that the blood in the higher α-carotene content of people have a longer life expectancy.
The highest content of α-carotene is carrot. Pumpkin, orange, citrus, the high content of α-carotene. Carotene is not afraid of high-temperature cooking, the carrot on the broth to cook, as long as the soup drink, and will not cause significant loss of α-carotene. On the contrary, the cooked food is more conducive to the absorption of various carotenoids, as long as a small amount of oil will be able to fully absorb the effect.
⒉ prevent arteriosclerosis, lower blood pressure and reduce heart disease
Carotene containing quercetin, kaempferol can increase coronary blood flow, lower blood lipids, and promote the synthesis of epinephrine, which has the role of antihypertensive cardiac. Carrots contain potassium succinate, help prevent hardening of the arteries, lower cholesterol and lower blood pressure. Carrots in the folic acid, can reduce the incidence of coronary heart disease factors. Hypertension drink carrot juice, a good antihypertensive effect. Eating more carrots than eating less carrots crowd, almost 50% reduction in heart cases.
⒊ enhance immune function
Carotene in the body can be converted into vitamin A, helps to enhance the body's immune function, in the prevention of epithelial cell carcinogenesis plays an important role. Carrots in the lignin can also improve immunity, the indirect elimination of cancer cells.
⒋ Yigan eyesight
Carrot with vitamin A and β-carotene, with the promotion of intraocular photogenic pigment production capacity, and can prevent night blindness, strengthen the eye color discrimination ability, but also can reduce eye fatigue and dry eyes.
⒌ purge
Carrot contains plant fiber, absorbent, easy to swell in the intestine, is the intestine in the "filling material", can strengthen the peristalsis of the intestine, thereby purging cancer.
⒍ anti-allergy
Japan's food nutrition scientists found that β-carotene in carrots can effectively prevent skin allergies to pollen allergies and allergic dermatitis and other allergic diseases, and β-carotene can also regulate cell balance and strengthen the body's anti-allergy Capacity, so that the body is not prone to allergic reactions.
⒎ beautiful face
A German study shows that carrots contain antioxidants carotenoids, skin antioxidant concentration of people, wrinkles significantly lower than the skin antioxidant concentration is low.
⒏ prevent colds
Carrots contain a strong immune substance, it is lignin, it can improve the ability of human macrophages, reduce colds. [8]
Edible recipes
⒈ salad carrot
Ingredients: 150 grams of carrots, 200 grams of green bean sprouts, green onions 50 grams, sesame oil, fine salt, sugar, vinegar, monosodium glutamate the amount. - · Features: Features: crisp and fresh.
Efficacy: cool liver eyesight.
practice:
⑴ carrots, green onions to skin cut into filaments; green bean sprouts to the root wash, boil for 2 minutes and picked up drain.
⑵ the sesame oil till the Liucheng hot, saute the onion silk, into the carrot silk, stir fry a few under the Sheng, to be salted into the bean sprouts, add sugar, vinegar, monosodium glutamate seasoning Serve.
⒉ leek fried carrots
The main materials: chives four cut sections, yellow throat (yellow throat, the line is called the cattle heart top, is the cattle throat, taste more crisp, and more for the hot pot or salad.), Carrots cut the three two, salt Amount, a tablespoon of starch and two tablespoons and the amount of monosodium glutamate, water into Euryale ferox juice.
Practice: the pot after boiling water will boil all the raw materials. Put a small amount of oil on the pan put the fire until the Bacheng heat all the raw materials into the salt fried with about two minutes. Thicken shovel uniform after Serve.
Nutritional value: In addition to rich in calcium, phosphorus, iron, protein and vitamins and other nutrients, but also contains a large number of fibers, can enhance gastrointestinal motility, accelerate the excretion of intestinal excessive nutrition and fat.
⒊ carrot chicken
Raw materials: chicken 4, onion ginger juice, soy sauce, tomato sauce, rice wine, water, starch, the amount of cooked lard.
Method: Wash the chicken legs, into the bowl, with onion ginger juice, pickled soy sauce look. Cooked carrots cut into hobs stand; wok stir on the heat, put the lard, to Bacheng hot, into the chicken fried golden brown, picked up with a colander. Stir-frying pan on the stir, put broth, salt, tomato sauce, into the chicken, after boiling the small fire for about 20 minutes remove the chicken, change the knife into pieces; the green beans, carrots with the original chicken halogen soup pot, , And then starch thicken water, poured into the chicken leg on the block Serve.
⒋ dry carrot silk
Ingredients: carrots 1 ground meat 100 grams seasoning salt 1/2 tsp white powder 1/2 tablespoon soy sauce 1/2 tablespoon
Practice: carrot shredded spare. Grilled meat and soy sauce and Taifen mix well. From the pan, into the oil 2 tablespoons, the meat pot stir-fry until the color, and then under the carrot and salt, stir-fry with a small fire to harden the carrots wire, release the marked oil can be. [8]
Medicinal
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Fruit medicine, a deworming effect, but also extract aromatic oil. [1]
Chinese medicine, carrots sweet, nature, non-toxic, lung, spleen. Can cure the loss of appetite, bloating, diarrhea, cough and phlegm, depending on the material is unknown, children with malnutrition, can be used in the treatment of spleen and stomach, Measles, night blindness, constipation, high blood pressure, gastrointestinal discomfort, fullness, bloating and so on. [7]
【Description】
⒈ "Materia Medica truth": "carrots, because of the Weixin is scattered, sweet and is, the weight of the lower.Therefore, the width of the gas, leaving the stomach of evil, and all to go also. In the health food, not in this virtual complement, the virtual does not eat this is healthy, it is evil to go by the benefit of that ear.
⒉ "Medical Lin compile to": "Carrots, Gan fill Xinrun, it is impotence under the warm, function like Cnidium." [7]
【Indications】
⑴ "Daily Materia Medica": "wide in the lower gas, scattered stomach evil stagnation."
⑵ "outline": "under the gas fill in the chest Diaphragm Gastrointestinal, Ann five internal organs, it is healthy."
⑶ "Medical Lin compile to": "Run Ren Shen, Zhuang Yuanyang, warm lower, in addition to cold dampness."
⑷ "Lingnan herbs recorded": "Where the acne, always Jianshui drink, can heat detoxification, fresh and sun can be used."