But "radish and cabbage, each has his own love" means that everyone has his own personal likes and dislikes for something. Some people don't like carrots. Next, I will introduce the benefits of eating carrots to you and see if you have changed.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that carrots are flat and sweet, have the effect of strengthening the spleen and stomach, and can be used as medicine. Eating carrots regularly has five advantages:
1. Vitamin A supplementation relieves the symptoms of night blindness. Presumably, everyone has seen the idol drama "The Kiss of Pranks". In the plot, Qin Xiang suffers from night blindness, and the main cause of this disease is the lack of vitamin A in human body.
Carrots are rich in nutrients, mainly β-carotene. After being absorbed by human body, β -carotene can be converted into vitamin A, which can improve vision.
Therefore, carrots are recognized as the safest food to supplement vitamin A at present, but we should also pay attention to the problem of excessive intake.
2. Carrots can regulate constipation and promote gastrointestinal peristalsis. This is because it is rich in plant fiber, which can fill the intestines after intake and help to discharge the waste in the human body in time, thus regulating the stomach and preventing constipation.
3. Carrots also help to improve the skin condition, mainly because of the efficacy of vitamin A, which is a fat-soluble vitamin, which can not only protect the skin surface from damage, but also prevent the skin from drying and peeling.
4. Carrots are suitable for people with three highs. Although it is sweet, it does not affect the consumption of diabetics at all. Because the carrot contains quercetin, it can not only improve microvascular circulation, but also be suitable for diabetic patients, which can help uninfected people prevent the occurrence of "three highs".
5. Improve human immunity. Previous studies have shown that β -carotene is absorbed by human body and converted into vitamin A, which inhibits the overreaction of immunocompetent cells and quenches the peroxide that causes immunosuppression, which is helpful to improve human immunity. The lignin contained in it can also play an anti-cancer role.
Carrots are good, but they are not all excusable foods. If people encounter the following three situations, try not to eat a lot of carrots.
1. Pregnant women
Eat less carrots, because too much intake will affect women's endocrine and may lead to amenorrhea. Previous studies have shown that carrots contain ingredients that inhibit ovarian ovulation, and women who are preparing to become pregnant should reduce their consumption.
2. After eating overheated ingredients
Not suitable for eating carrots. If you eat ginseng first and then carrots, it may have an antagonistic effect. Because carrot itself is a cold food, and ginseng is a hot food, the two foods are eaten together, and the efficacy is easy to offset, which affects the curative effect.
3. Eat Chinese medicine.
Don't eat carrots when drinking traditional Chinese medicine, because the function of drugs will be interfered by the nutrients in carrots, which will lead to the loss of efficacy and nutrients, but it will not be worth the candle.
Although carrots are nutritious and delicious, the above three situations need absolute attention. It should also be noted that the most suitable way to eat carrots is not raw. Try to cook them before eating. Carrots can be mashed and stuffed in jiaozi buns, or stewed, which can play a role without damaging the health of the stomach.