Carrots are also called carrots and yellow radishes. They are bright and colorful, tender and juicy, delicious, sweet and delicious, and rich in nutrients. They are called "small ginseng". Carrots contain protein, fat, sugar, carotene, vitamin C and B vitamins and a variety of inorganic salts, amino acid ingredients. In daily life, some people like to eat raw carrots. I think this is also very good. So what about raw carrots? Are carrots eaten well or cooked well?
Is the carrot raw or cooked?
Carrots are better to eat than raw.
Carotene in carrots is present in plant cells. After heating, the cells become soft and the cell permeability increases. After chewing, carotene is more easily absorbed by the body. When raw, because the cell wall is too hard and complete, it will be more difficult to absorb.
Raw food: raw carrots are easy to let the water-soluble vitamins and minerals be absorbed by the body, so drinking freshly squeezed carrot juice can play a role in laxative and detoxification. But raw food is not the best way to absorb carotene.
Cooked: can fully absorb carotene. Carotene is a fat-soluble substance, just like lycopene in tomatoes. Only when oil is properly cooked, it can greatly increase the absorption rate of carotene.
Taboo to eat carrots
1, do not eat carrots. If too much carrot is ingested, the amount of carotene in the blood will increase sharply, and a large amount will accumulate in the skin. Yellow staining will occur on the palms, fingers, palms, nasolabial folds and nostrils, although it will not affect health. However, it will be greatly reduced in appearance, and it will slowly fade after a few days of eating carrots.
2, carrots contain vitamin C decomposing enzymes, should not be eaten with foods rich in vitamin C;
3, excessive supplementation of carotene is likely to lead to female infertility: According to research and animal experiments in the Johns Hopkins Medical School in the United States, excessive carotenoids affect the ovarian lutein synthesis. Carotene may cause a decrease in female secretion, and may even cause menstruation and ovulation. This may be caused by beta carotene interfering with steroid synthesis, so it is best for pregnant women to eat carrots properly, not excessive.
4, carotene is afraid of acid, so when cooking carrots, avoid vinegar, so as not to reduce nutrients.
How do carrots eat nutrition?
Boiled carrots + different amounts of oil
In the Philippines, a study was conducted among children to divide some children into three groups and give them a meal of carotene-rich cooked vegetables. The total daily fat intake was 21 grams, 29 grams and 45 grams. When the researchers examined changes in the levels of carotene and vitamin A in their blood, the levels of beta-carotene and vitamin A in the blood increased regardless of the group, and there was no significant difference in the magnitude of the increase.
Boiled carrots + other oily foods
The researchers also found that after ingesting a meal of cooked vegetables rich in beta-carotene, ingesting other fat-containing foods over a period of time also promotes the absorption of beta-carotene in the food. The carotene that stays in the intestine can wait until the new fat in the intestine comes, and then forms an emulsified microsphere with the fat to be absorbed.
Raw carrot + oily salad dressing
Another study in the United States gave the subjects a vegetable salad containing raw carrots, a group of salad dressings containing 28 grams of fat, and a group of salad dressings containing 6 grams of fat. Mix the fat-free salad dressing. It was found that the blood of the group of 28 grams of fat salad dressing had a higher content of β-carotene than the group of 6 grams of fat salad dressing, and the group of fat-free salad dressing, β-carotene. The growth in the blood is very weak, but after eating the vegetable salad for 6 hours, the concentration of β-carotene in the blood ushered in a second peak with a new meal (the subject chose).
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