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Carrots

About Carrots

Carrots are a root vegetable, likely originating from Persia (modern day Iran and Afghanistan).

Nutrition Benefits of Carrots

Carrots are loaded with the antioxidant Beta Carotene, which is where its orange color comes from.  (Beta Carotene gets metabolized into Vitamin A).  It also is a good source of Lutein, Vitamin K, and Vitamin B6.  Carrots are well known for their benefits with vision and eye health due to the Lutein and Zeaxanthin carotenoids they posses (carotenoids are a certain category of antioxidants).

Carrot benefits have also been tied to anti-cancer benefits due to their carotenoid antioxidants.

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Carrots scores well for 10 health goals

This ingredient was scored for various health goals Learn more.

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Breast Cancer

Recipe Score:94

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Cancer

Recipe Score:92

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Brain

Recipe Score:90

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Circulatory System (Cardiovascular)

Recipe Score:88

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Erectile Dysfunction

Recipe Score:88

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Liver

Recipe Score:88

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Thyroid

Recipe Score:88

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Diabetes (Type 2)

Recipe Score:86

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Leukemia

Recipe Score:84

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Parkinson's

Recipe Score:80

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The Research

Breast Cancer

Breast Cancer: Score 94

Summary:

Human: Carrot intake is associated with a lower risk of breast cancer. It contains Beta-carotene, which is associated with a lower risk of breast cancer. Beta-carotene reduces the risk of breast cancer development. Breast cancer risk may be affected by telomere length among low dietary intake of antioxidants such as beta-carotene.

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Cancer

Cancer: Score 92

Summary:

Human: Carrots are associated with a lower risk of breast cancer. Animal: Carrot oil has remarkable anti-tumor activity against chemically induced skin cancer. In Vitro: It is a potent anti-cancer agent. Carrots exhibit anti-leukemia properties. It inhibited cell proliferation by inducing cell death in HT-29 cells. It is a potential candidate for cancer therapy specifically targeting cancer motility and metastasis.

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Brain

Brain: Score 90

Summary:

Carrots have beneficial effects in improving cognitive problems.

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Circulatory System (Cardiovascular)

Circulatory System (Cardiovascular): Score 88

Summary:

Carrots are one of the foods that reduces the risk of heart attack.

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Erectile Dysfunction

Erectile Dysfunction: Score 88

Summary:

Carrots are one of the foods that reduces the risk of heart attack.

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Liver

Liver: Score 88

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Animal: Carrots delayed chemical induced hepatoma. They protect the liver from chemical injury and liver toxicity.

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Thyroid

Thyroid: Score 88

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Academic Review:

Contains beta-carotene (334% RDA vitamin A), which showed an inverse association with thyroid carcinoma. People that consumed carrots were less likely to get thyroid cancer.

Diabetes (Type 2)

Diabetes (Type 2): Score 86

Summary:

Human: Carrot increases serum beta carotene concentration, reduces body fat and improves insulin resistance.

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Leukemia

Leukemia: Score 84

Summary:

In Vitro: Carrots exhibit anti-leukemia properties.

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Parkinson's

Parkinson's: Score 80

Summary:

Protective effect of lycopene on oxidative stress and cognitive decline in rotenone induced model of Parkinson's disease.

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How Our Scoring System Works

For each health goal, we assigned a score to each recipe and each ingredient. This helps you better understand the correlation that medical research is suggesting between foods and benefits to various health goals. Our scoring system is based on REAL RESEARCH published on pubmed.gov. This is a website that curates over 25 million different biomedical journals.

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What we consider when creating your scores:

  • 1Type of Study (human, animal, lab, or academic review)
  • 2Amount of Research
  • 3What the Research Says
  • 4How much of the ingredient we use (for the recipes)
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