Nutritional value of carrots

There are several colors of radishes, including white skin, green skin, and red skin. Let’s learn about red skin radishes.

Carrot Introduction

Radish is also known as radish and Luofu. my country is the hometown of radish, and it has a long history of cultivation and consumption. As early as in the Book of Songs, there were records about radish.

It can be used to make dishes, such as stir-frying, boiling, and cold dressing; it can also be eaten raw as a fruit, which tastes delicious; it can also be pickled to make kimchi and pickled vegetables.

Radish is rich in nutrients and has great edible and medical value. There is a saying that "eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, and you will be healthy all year round."

Nutritional value of carrots

Radishes contain fewer calories and more fiber, and they easily make you feel full after eating, all of which help you lose weight.

Radish can induce the human body to produce interferon, increase the body's immunity, and inhibit the growth of cancer cells, playing an important role in cancer prevention and treatment.

The mustard oil and refined fiber in radish can promote gastrointestinal motility and help excrete waste from the body.

Eating radish regularly can lower blood lipids, soften blood vessels, stabilize blood pressure, and prevent coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis, cholelithiasis and other diseases.

Effects of eating carrots

Carrots are spicy, sweet, and cool in nature. They enter the lung and stomach meridians.

It can eliminate stagnation, resolve phlegm and heat, relieve qi, relieve fullness, and detoxify;

It is mainly used to treat food stagnation, phlegm, cough, aphonia, vomiting blood, epistaxis, thirst, dysentery and migraine.

Carrots are suitable for people

It is edible for general population.

1. Suitable for people who want to lose weight, patients with early-stage cancer, constipation, high blood lipids, and high blood pressure;

2. However, radish is cold in nature and can help the intestines. People with spleen deficiency and diarrhea should eat it with caution or eat less. People with yin-dominant and cold constitution, or those with spleen and stomach deficiency should not eat too much radish. Patients with gastric and duodenal ulcers, chronic gastritis, simple goiter, threatened abortion, uterine prolapse, etc. should avoid eating radish.

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