Fruit and vegetable juice loves everything, and young and old alike. Fragrant drinks not only satisfies thirst, but also feed an organism with useful substances. A subject of our article — carrot juice and its wealth minerals and also application in the general therapy and cosmetology.
Vitamins, minerals, micro and macrocells
Sowing campaign carrots juice — one of the richest with minerals of drinks. Thanks to this wealth it has a set of curative properties.
Whether you know? The homeland of carrots is the Iranian Plateau. There it grows in a wild look and has violet color. And orange it was made by selectors of Holland especially for the Oransko-Nassausky royal dynasty whose dynastic color still is orange.
Let's consider these substances separately on groups.
Content of vitamins B is 100 g of a product:
- A (Retinolum) — 350 mkg;
- β-carotene — 2.11 mg;
- B1 (thiamine) — 0.013 mg;
- B2 (Riboflavinum) — 0.023 mg;
- B3 (RR, niacinamide) — 0.24 mg;
- With (ascorbic acid) — 3.04 mg;
- E (tocopherol) — 0.31 mg.
Maintenance of macrocells:
- Ca (calcium) — 189.2 mg;
- K (potassium) — 128.3 mg;
- Mg (magnesium) — 7.1 mg;
- Na (sodium) — 25.4 mg;
- P (phosphorus) — 26.0 mg.
Maintenance of minerals:
- Fe (iron) — 0.62 mg.
Learn how vitamin A affects hair and face skin.
Other micronutrients scanty quantity. Content of the substances consisting of organogenic elements:
- proteins — 1.12 g;
- carbohydrates (poly- and monosaccharides) — 12.62 g;
- fats — 0.13 g;
- organic acids — 0.22 g.
Caloric content — 55 kcal / 100 ml.
Useful properties
Carrots sowing and, respectively, drinks from it — champions on the content of the β-carotene, pro-vitamin necessary for vitamin A synthesis.
Whether you know? Carrots gave the name to carotene — because of wealth this pro-vitamin — in Latin carrots are written as carota.
Thanks to this circumstance the regular consumption of vegetable and juice drinks conducts by the next improving moments:
- normalization of functioning of a thyroid gland;
- strengthening of a skeleton and also dentine and tooth enamel;
- increase in resilience of an organism;
- the calming action;
- increase in concentration of attention;
- normalization of arterial blood pressure and work of a cardiac muscle.
Carrots accelerate disintegration and removal from an organism of the hazardous substances which got there as a result of the use of medicines, alcohol and junk food. Therefore it is recommended to people after 40 years. Cocktail from carrot and apple juice is a great natural power engineering specialist. Such mix contains a lot of iron, vitamins A and With and also fructose which, besides fast energy, intensifies serotonin synthesis, pleasure hormone.
Whether you know? The capital of carrots is the town of Holtvill in the USA. There annually hold a carrots Festival. In the program of a holiday: a parade, competitions of culinary specialists and sports meets with use of favourite vegetable.
Carrots contain daukosterin — derivative steroid, the activator of certain think-tanks thanks to which sexual desire amplifies is intensified development of spermatozoa and the reproductive system becomes stronger.
Drink also well influences also a female reproductive system, feigning production of estrogen and especially progestins. So if the woman has problems with fertilization, then this orange root crop and its derivatives is recommended to her.
Including in the daily diet carrots and juice from it, the person thereby promotes rapid growth of the hair, strengthening of nails, maintenance of health of skin and prevention of cancer tumors. Fresh juice is recommended to babies as it:
- possesses anti-inflammatory action;
- improves appetite;
- accelerates metabolism.
Important! It is better for kids to give carefully filtered carrot juice. Cake is not pleasant to them, and they can refuse sheer pleasure.
Drink is also very useful during creation of a slim figure. It:
- normalizes water balance and removes thereby puffiness and also strengthens work of kidneys;
- contains many nutrients, remaining at the same time a low-calorie product.
The organism of future mother feeds the fruit with all macro - and minerals, all organogenic substances which contribute to its normal development. And carrot juice here as is impossible by the way. Besides, it helps at locks and regulates body weight. During feeding by a breast regular consumption of carrot juice promotes increase in development of milk, doing it nice to the taste. At the baby consuming such enriched milk the immunity becomes stronger, and will accelerate the general development.
Important! In the period of a lactation it is necessary to treat a dosage of carrot juice with special attentiveness that the child had no allergic reaction or there was no indigestion.
Application
Thanks to the unique biochemical structure, carrot juice found broad application in medicine and cosmetology.
Medical
In the therapeutic purposes only juice is applied. So, for example, it helps for cough in the form of rinsings and the use inside together with honey. At cold it is dug in in a nose, previously having filtered from pulp and having diluted with salt solution in the ratio 1:1.
It is recommended to drink at heartburn. Carrot juice cleans a gall bladder. Also it helps to get rid of worms if to drink it daily, at once after awakening. Such means is especially recommended to children up to 3 years, they badly perceive garlic.
Whether you know? In the 17th age of the woman of Britain decorated the hats not only with flowers and feathers, but also to leaves. Often it were carrots leaves thanks to their refined type and long maintaining freshness.
Carrots normalize the content of calcium and cholesterol in an organism therefore it in any kind is recommended to the people predisposed to cardiovascular diseases. They need to eat daily only one carrot to stabilize work of heart.
Carrot juice is recommended at complex treatment of inflammations, gepatoz and other developments of stagnation in a liver, it positively influences hepatic fabric. At medical starvation the use of fresh juice promotes removal of swellings of intestines and elimination of locks. And, besides, juice contains enzymes which help intestines to get rid of parasites.
But carrot juice brings the biggest benefit to sight, feeding an eyeball with all necessary substances and strengthening an eye retina. In this case about two glasses of juice are recommended to drink daily.
Spinach, onions, garlic, broccoli, cottage cheese, pumpkin are the most useful products for sight.
At patients with diabetes fresh carrot juice stabilizes the level of glucose and slows down its assimilation. However in such cases it it is necessary to apply only after consultation with the doctor no more glass in day. Also carrot juice improves work of a pancreas and strengthens an organism in fight against viral and bacterial infections.
Important! Vitamin A is produced at compound of β-carotene with fats therefore it is necessary to add vegetable oil to carrot juice.
At oncological diseases carrot juice is recommended in combination with beet — such juice mix is rich with vitamin A and iron which actively participate in fight against cells of a tumor and prevent their growth.
Cosmetic
Before use of carrot juice in the cosmetic purposes it is necessary to purify skin (for example, a srub) that its died-off cages were not painted in orange color, and skin did not lose the esthetics.
It is desirable to wipe skin, withering or inclined to irritations, with carrot juice twice a week. The procedure is suitable for any type of skin.
- For toning of skin under bronze, evenings need in the mornings and to wipe it with mix of glycerin and juice, in the ratio 1:2.
- For decolouration of freckles, the face needs to be wiped with carrot juice with several drops of lemon juice.
- Sore and pimply skin it is possible to treat lotions, putting the gauze napkins soaked with carrot juice on a face. Such procedure of 15 minutes lasts then the face is rinsed and processed by nutritious cream.
Whether you know? Carrots according to the European standards are fruit. The fact is that Portuguese cook from it jam and sell across the whole Europe, and by rules of the European Union jam is made only of fruit. Therefore in the international customs codes carrots were registered as fruit though it and does not correspond to botanical classification.
- Carrot juice is a part of nutritious cottage cheese masks. In this case equal parts of cottage cheese, any vegetable oil and juice are pounded. The received weight is put on a face for half an hour then it is washed away. Masks are suitable for any type of skin.
- The bleaching mask. In half of glass of juice it is necessary to stir carefully a teaspoon of starch and an egg yolk. To put a mask on a face for half an hour, and then to wash away. The procedure is suitable for any type of skin.
- Mask for the withering skin. To shake up an egg yolk with vegetable oil (1 tsp), sour cream (1 tsp), carrot juice (1 tsp) and oatmeal (1 tsp). To put gruel on a face for half an hour, and then to wash away and process leather nutritious cream. Frequency of procedures — 3 times a week.
Whether you know? During World War I in the German empire did an ersatz coffee of fried carrots. Very invigorating fragrant drink turned out.
- Mask for the shelled skin. To mix cottage cheese, sour cream and carrot juice in equal parts. To cover with a mask a face, and through a quarter of hour to wash away.
- Mask from wrinkles. To shake up carrot juice and an egg yolk. Mix is put on a face and a zone of a decollete for half an hour, and then washed away.
- Mask for an oily hair. To mix carrot and lemon juice with kefir and buckwheat flour, to rub in the head and to leave for half an hour, having covered it with a bathing hat, and then to wash away and rinse hair.
Harm and contraindications
Contraindications to consumption of drink:
- stomach ulcer;
- stomach ulcer of a duodenum;
- pancreatitis in a sharp phase;
- the increased acidity of a stomach;
- allergic reaction.
Restrictions:
- during remission of pancreatitis the regularity of the consumption of juice from carrots has to be not more often than 2 times a week on a half-glass and without pulp.
- at any gastric diseases the use of fresh carrot juice is forbidden as vitamin C and β-carotene strongly irritate mucous a stomach;
- at gastritis juice should be drunk at once after an extraction;
- at pregnancy the day norm should not exceed 250 ml, otherwise at a fruit can develop gipervitaminoz.
- consumption of drink in large numbers for once can lead to disorder of intestines.
Important! The smokers and workers adjoining to asbestos are in risk group of lung cancer. They need to treat with care consumption of carrots as it as show researches, increases this risk, and it is exclusive in their case.
Preparation
By means of the blender
- Ochistte also wash carrots. Surely cut off a top. If carrots house, for cleaning of rather rigid brush if store, with suspicion on pesticides, the peeler is necessary.
- Cut root crops circles on 3-5 cm depending on blender power.
- By means of the blender turn root crops into puree.
- Mix puree with warm water in the ratio 1:2 and shake up before receiving homogeneous mass.
- Let mix stand within half an hour.
- Then filter it through a sieve, having carefully wrung out pulp.
- Add to water juice to that density which is pleasant to you.
Learn, than are useful also what vitamins contain tomato, pear, garnet, birch, lemon juices.
By means of the juice extractor
- Clean root crops as in the first case.
- Cut them pieces on 5-8 cm, and even do not cut — everything depends on juice extractor power.
- Substitute reception capacity under a juice extractor drain.
- Having turned on the juice extractor, put preparations in its reception compartment, pressing down them the pusher. You monitor filling of reception capacity.
- Serve drink at once after an extraction, otherwise it will be oxidized soon and will lose useful properties.
Ration
That carrot juice did good, it is necessary to include it in a daily diet. The dosage depends on age of the person and is defined by vitamin A consumption units:
|
Age |
Vitamin A, piece. |
Amount of juice, ml |
|
Till 1 year |
1500 |
75 |
|
From 1 year to 7 years |
2000 |
100 |
|
From 7 to 12 years |
3500 |
175 |
|
To children 12 years are more senior |
4500 |
225 |
|
Adult |
5000 |
250 |
|
To pregnant women |
6000 |
300 |
|
Nursing |
8000 |
400 |
Storage
It is possible to store any juice, but only in exceptional cases, all its advantage — in freshness. For preservation of drink it needs to be poured in capacity and to hide immediately in the fridge. In this case it will keep almost all the useful properties, but not longer, than for day.
Now, knowing all useful properties of carrots, you, perhaps, pay more attention to this the maiden in a dungeon with the slanting street. And, if you already were her fan, then, perhaps, were even stronger convinced of correctness of the choice.