Another good reason to eat carrots as it is believed to be a stimulant to the male. The phallus shaped carrot has been associated with stimulation since ancient times and was used by early Middle Eastern royalty to aid seduction. High vitamins and beta-carotene. Perhaps a justification for a piece of carrot cake?
Carrots are now regularly bred in purple, red, yellow and white, in addition to orange, and scientists say that there is added nutritional benefit to choosing a colorful vegetable over a more conventional one. Carrots are in practically all coleslaw recipes, providing color and flavor to the slaw. They are often juiced and marketed as a health drink, either alone or mixed with other fruits and vegetables. Carrots are available and in season all year long. Look for well shaped carrots. Carrots are one of those vegetables that loses very little nutritional value during cooking. In fact, some nutrients in slightly cooked carrots are more available to the body than raw carrots.
Carrots are mechanically harvested by undercutting the roots and elevating them out of the soil and into the machine by grasping the leaves. Thus, it is important to maintain healthy leaves until the carrots are harvested. Carrots are irrigated mainly using overhead sprinklers, centre-pivot and lateral move irrigators with water drawn from bores, rivers and dams.
Carrots are biennial plants so once they shoot up (leaves and a flower/seedstalk), the quality/nutrition of the carrot goes down. A biennial plant dies during its second season, after setting seed. Carrots are well known for their sweetening, antianaemic, healing, diuretic, remineralizing and sedative properties. Carrots are good for you, so you know that even if you eat them in large quantities they are not going to affect you negatively. The worst thing that happens is that you snack on something healthy and see no change; the best thing is that it improves the quality of your cervical mucus allowing you to get pregnant easily.
Carrots are an excellent source of the deep yellow carotenoids that produce vitamin A. They are also a good source of magnesium, potassium, vitamins C and B complex, and a form of calcium that is easily absorbed by the body. Carrots are a staple around the world. Cuddled by the soil, they are cared for by the earth and encouraged by their organic gardener. Carrots are delicious eaten raw or cooked. Beta-carotene is not destroyed by cooking; in fact, cooking breaks down the fiber, making this nutrient and carrots' sugars more available, thus also making them taste sweeter. It is beta-carotene that gives carrots their orange colour. Beta carotene is made into vitamin A in our bodies so it plays an important role in keeping us healthy.
Carrots are easy to raise and easy to harvest but carrots are subject to salt injury; therefore, apply fertilizer at least 7 days before planting. Broadcasting fertilizer is best; however, if banding is done, bands should be at least 3 inches to the side of the row and 5 inches deep. Carrots are grown on farms and in family gardens throughout the world. They grown down into the soil instead of up toward the sunshine.
Labels: Carrots, common sex food stimulants