The familiar vegetable is indeed a superfood – Prevents inflammation and supports memory – 2024-03-02 18:39:53

A nutritionist Reijo Laatikainen according to this, you should eat a good portion of carrots four or five times a week.

Eating carrots supports our health in many ways.

One carrot a day already covers most of our vitamin A needs.

In the following, we will tell you all the good things that eating carrots can bring you.

1. Carrots contain beta-carotene, from which the human body can make vitamin A. Vitamin A is an important factor in, among other things, the functioning of the nervous system and the prevention of inflammation.

2. Eating carrots is good for the health of your eyes, but you can’t improve your vision even with large amounts of carrots.

After the potato, the carrot is the most popular vegetable in Finland. We eat about nine kilos of carrots per person every year. ADOBE STOCK / AOP

3. The fiber in the carrot increases the secretion of saliva, which supports oral health.

4. Carrots contain ingredients that prevent harmful oral bacteria from working and sticking to the surfaces of the teeth.

5. You only get a little energy from one medium-sized carrot, i.e. about 50 kilocalories.

6. In addition to vitamin A, carrots provide vitamin K, selenium, potassium, calcium and folate.

7. According to research, the carotenes contained in carrots are also linked to better memory and other cognitive functions.

Those who ate vegetables containing carotenes, their memory and other cognitive mental functions seemed to remain in clearly better condition for longer than those who got little carotenes in their diet.

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Vitamin A deficiency is rare in industrialized countries. Vitamin A deficiency can manifest as night blindness and dry eyes. Vitamin A deficiency can also increase the symptoms of dry skin.

If you eat a lot of carrots every day, your skin may start to get an orange tint. However, this is usually not dangerous.

In the long term, high intake of vitamin A can cause osteoporosis, and in very high amounts it can cause liver damage. Abundant consumption of liver products and unnecessary use of vitamin A supplements is therefore not recommended.

Even a slight long-term excess intake of vitamin A, i.e. 1,500 micrograms per day, has been linked to an increased risk of osteoporosis. For this reason, higher doses of vitamin A are not recommended for postmenopausal women with a high risk of osteoporosis.