| Carrots (Daucus carota) are well known to most of | | | | then discarded. A great way to get a good intake of |
| us in fact the earliest recorded account of a carrot | | | | carrots with maximum nutritional content is to drink |
| was made some 2000 years ago. The origins of this | | | | them in juice form. For those of you that don't like |
| vegetables name are thought to have come from | | | | eating a lot of carrots this is a great alternative for |
| the Indo-European word for horn 'Ker'. Interestingly | | | | you still get all the vitamins and minerals. The only |
| the carrot was not always used for its root | | | | thing you loose in most fruit juice is the fibre content. |
| vegetable but was once used for its fragrant leaves | | | | Juice is also an easy alternative which can be stored |
| and seeds. A well known relative of the carrot is still | | | | neatly in the fridge or cupboard ready for when you |
| grown for its leaves and seed, commonly known as | | | | need it. |
| parsley. The carrot gets its bright orange colour from | | | | Recent studies that have compared organic vs |
| carotene, which when metabolized in the body | | | | regular fruit has found that organic fruit has much |
| becomes vitamin A . Vitamin A is partly responsible | | | | higher levels of vitamins and minerals than regular |
| for the urban legend that eating carrots gives you | | | | fruit. Although not a vegetable the potato was |
| good night vision. In fact what is happening is that | | | | recently found to have lost 100% of its vitamin A |
| carrots are rich in vitamin A, and vitamin A is essential | | | | content! Considering vitamin A is one of the most |
| for good vision especially night vision. The legend was | | | | important aspects of carrots it is well worth thinking |
| actually started in WW2 when British pilots were said | | | | about the advantages or organic over regular. Apart |
| to have a diet rich in carrots. | | | | from its greater nutritional values organic carrots also |
| Carrots can be ingested in a number of different | | | | have other added benefits. For example organic |
| ways, most basically they can be eaten raw. But the | | | | farms are much more sustainable than farms using |
| root vegetable is also famous for its use in literally | | | | modern chemicals to increase their crops. They are |
| thousands of recipes around the world in cooked | | | | also much friendlier to the environment around them |
| form. Often eating carrots raw is a better way to | | | | as they don't cause as much pollution, and chemicals |
| get maximum nutrition out of them as opposed to | | | | and pollution are something nobody wants especially |
| cooking them which can extract some of the | | | | not in the carrots that you are drinking. |
| nutrients, for example into cooking water which is | | | | |