Carrot

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Title: Carrot Category: Top 10+ Vegetables Origin: Afghanistan Listing added: May 10, 2009 Comments: 0 PageRank: 5/10

The carrot is a root vegetable, usually orange or purple, red, white, and yellow in colour, with a crisp texture when fresh. It is a biennial plant which grows a rosette of leaves in the spring and summer, while building up the stout taproot, which stores large amounts of sugars for the plant to flower in the second year. Carrots can be eaten in a variety of ways. The simplest way is raw as carrots are perfectly digestible without requiring cooking. Alternatively they may be chopped and boiled, fried or steamed, and cooked in soups and stews, as well as baby and pet foods. A well known dish is carrots julienne.
The carrot gets its characteristic and bright orange colour from β-carotene, which is metabolised into vitamin A in humans when bile salts are present in the intestines. Ethnomedically, the roots are used to treat digestive problems, intestinal parasites, and tonsillitis or constipation.

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