How to Add Carrots to Your Diet and Know of its Benefits

Eating Carrots has many health benefits. They can help improve your eyesight, give you healthy skin, nails, hair and bones. Carrots contains beta-carotene which is an antioxidant that works to prevent cancer. It also lowers cholesterol, lowers high blood pressure. Here are some ways to add carrots to your diet.

Instructions

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  Grate carrots over any bread mix or any muffin mix. Create your own own homemade carrot bread with whole grains, carrot zucchini bread, cinnamon carrot bread, banana carrot bread or carrot apple bread. Make homemade carrot cookies with oats and almond for your children and you.

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  Use Shredded carrots in any salad. Have a Carrot salad- apples, raisins and mayonaise. Make your own coleslaw with cabbage, carrots, mayonaise, celery vinegar, salt and pepper.

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  Use them for dinner. Steamed carrots and have it with your meal. Saute chopped carrots and bell peppers and add it to Brown Rice or Couscous. Use them in your casserole. Add carrots to beef stew or pot roast.

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  Make your own soups with carrots, add broth, celery, and other vegetables or shop at your supermarkets for soup that have carrots in them such as Carrot and Ginger Soup, Carrot butternut soup and carrot squash ginger soup.

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  You can eat them raw or snack on baby carrots with ranch dressing.

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  Have Carrot Juice - Add carrots to your juicer with other fruits and vegetables or purchase carrot juice. It can be great for the mornings or as a nutritious drink for lunch.