To mark International Carrot Day 2016, the annual celebration of our favourite orange vegetable, Farmdrop, the online farmer's market that lets you buy healthy, delicious food direct from local farmers and producers, brings Female First readers ten reasons why carrots are so important in a vegan diet.
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- Carrots are rich in beta-carotene, which converts into vitamin A when absorbed by the body. This vitamin is known to help improve your eyesight, and reduces the likelihood of getting cateracts.
- Vegans need to keep up a healthy diet that's rich in iron and vitamin C, carrots contain plenty of that and more.
- Carrots are high in soluble fiber, reducing cholesterol and decreasing your chances of a blood clot and heart disease.
- They're a great source of potassium, which helps you maintain healthy sodium and blood pressure levels.
- Carrots can kill many harmful germs in the mouth and fight tooth decay.
- Carrots come in purple, black, white, yellow and orange. It's widely recommended that vegans eat a variety of different coloured vegetables in order to get the many types of vitamins and minerals for a balanced diet, and carrots have it covered.
- The versatility of carrots means you can cook them in a variety of ways to keep your meals interesting. You can roast, bake, mash, boil, caramelise, spiralise, braise or even use in a cake mixture!
- The many vitamins and minerals that carrots contain fight different forms of cancer.
- You can eat the carrot tops for a healthy dose of greens.
- It's a myth that rabbits prefer carrots to other food. So you can live with the safe assumption that you're not taking away Bugs Bunny's favourite meal!
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