Carrots stand out for their high water content (88%), fiber, minerals (sodium, potassium, calcium, and iodine), and vitamins (A and B6). In fact, it is the vegetable with the highest vitamin A content.
How to preserve and prepare them?
It is advisable to scrape or peel them. They can be consumed alone or as an ingredient in numerous savory and sweet dishes: whole, chopped, grated, cooked or mashed, blended, as an appetizer, ingredient in salads or refreshing drinks, in creams and puddings, in stews and casseroles... They are also used, for their sweet taste, as an ingredient in desserts: carrot cake, carrot pie, carrot balls with grated coconut...
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Nutritional values of carrots
Carrots have different beneficial properties for our body that you can discover here. In the table and graph below, we show the nutritional values of carrots: