Bright orange in color and carrying a high nutritious value, carrot juice is a sweet health elixir loaded with vitamins and minerals that are good for your health.
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Nutrition Facts
Vitamins and Minerals: A cup of carrot juice carries with it a great deal of vitamins and minerals. Carrot juice is an excellent source of vitamin-A, vitamin-B1, vitamin C, D, E, K, and vitamin-B6. In addition to these nutrients, carrot juice contains phytonutrients like lutein and lycophene, anti-oxidants like alpha, beta, and gamma carotenes; carotenes have powerful healing capabilities for many diseases.
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Calorie: A cup of carrot juice has only 80 calories of which 2.24 grams are protein, 1.9 grams are fiber, and 22 grams are carbohydrates. In relation to other juices, carrot juice can be considered as an excellent alternative option for water due to its low calorie.
Health benefits
A cup of carrot juice carries carotenoids in abundance. Carotenoids that are present in the carrot juice provide you with many health benefits.
Few of the health benefits that carrot juice can provide to you are listed below
Maximizes Immunity And Prevents Heart Diseases: Carrot juice has a rich source of beta-carotene. Beta-carotene is converted to Vitamin-A by the liver. Vitamin-A improves the immune system and eyesight as well as helps prevent the onset of heart diseases and stroke. It also helps prevent pathogenic organisms from infecting the lining of your vital internal organs.
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Controls Blood Pressure: One cup of carrot juice provides a substantial amount of potassium to your body. This potassium helps to reduce blood pressure as well as keep bad cholesterol at bay.
Improves Appetite and Digestion: Carrot juice is a natural appetizer. A cup of carrot juice 25 to 30 minutes before a meal stimulates your body’s digestive juices that serve as a great appetizer. The fiber content in carrot benefits your digestive organs by promoting digestion.
Improves Eyesight: Most of you know that carrot juice helps improve eyesight but not many are aware – how? A cup of carrot juice possess abundant beta-carotene and lutein. Beta-carotene and lutein are also present in your retina which protects your vision, especially night vision. Beta-carotene is converted to vitamin A by the liver. This vitamin A plays a vital role in helping your retina stay healthy and also help you to have a healthy night-vision as well.
Prevents Cancer: The carotenoids present in carrot juice are known to prevent postmenopausal breast cancer by 20 to 25%. Carrot juice is also known to decrease or prevent the occurrence of the cancers of the larynx, colon, prostate, cervix, and bladder as well as lung cancer. The high levels of xanthophylls, lycophene, lutein, and alpa and gamma carotenes in carrots are believed to play a major role in preventing the onset of these types of cancer.
Healthy Bone: Carrot juice helps in the binding of calcium that helps heal broken bones faster and also potassium present in carrot juice helps you have an overall good bone health.
Benefits to your Skin: Vitamin-A deficiency is associated with dry skin and hair as well as damaged nails. Carrot juice contains vitamin-A which helps you prevent dryness of skin and hair and also damages to the nail. It also helps prevent psoriasis.
Enrich Lactation: Breast milk of nursing mothers are enriched by carrot juice and during breastfeeding the infant gets Vitamin A as well.
Improves Liver Function: Drinking a cup of carrot juice on regular basis helps you detoxify your liver. Some of the toxins are to be removed or ejected from the skin, carrot juice helps this process effectively and ensures that harmful bile are also removed from the body. Carrot juice thus helps your liver to function well and also prevents the accumulation of fats in the liver. It also aids in digestion.
Fights Ageing: Beta-carotenoids in carrot juice are converted to vitamin A; this reduces cell degeneration and thus helps slow down the process of aging of your body. It also helps to increase the amount of collagen in the skin to maintain elasticity. This helps reduce the visible signs of aging like sagging skin and wrinkles.
Weight loss: Due to his low calorie and filling effect, carrot juice helps you lose weight faster. Carrot juice contains a large amount of natural sugar which helps you avoid the addition of extra sugar. A blended juice of carrot, apple, and cucumber is a very healthy recipe for you if you are on a weight loss program.
CAUTION: Diabetics have to CONSULT their doctor before having carrot juice introduced into their dietary plan.
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