The 'unbelievable' uses of carrots

You often hear that carrots improve eyesight, prevent hepatitis, treat vitamin A deficiency, and prevent malnutrition. But that’s not all carrots have, because they also have the following “super unimaginable” effects.

Calcium booster

Traditionally, people think that when taking calcium, they must take vitamin D or sunbathe so that the calcium can be optimally absorbed into the body. People also advise that when taking calcium, you should not use a diet too rich in vegetables and fruits because they can reduce your calcium absorption. But recently, scientists may make us rethink this. Because a new type of carrot has been created that can interact like a standalone calcium supplement pill.

This special version of carrot was developed by the A&M AgriLife Fruit and Vegetable Improvement Center (Texas, USA). It is called the CAX1 version carrot. People have mutated some genes in the regular carrot to make it a different carrot.

The difference is that it has the ability to increase calcium reserves in itself, allowing you to have 41% more calcium than when eating regular carrots. Therefore, just eating a fair amount of special vegetables, a group of foods that bring many benefits, can help women in their forties to push back the risk of osteoporosis while also beautifying the skin. Kill two birds with one stone, why not try it?

Are carrots only yellow?

When it comes to carrots, a small boy usually thinks that its color is deep yellow. And of course, you think so too. But you will have to think again because nowadays carrots also come in purple like the color of eggplant. If it were just changing the color, it would be nothing to talk about. The interesting thing is that in changing the color of carrots, scientists have not forgotten to change the health benefits as well.

Specifically, with the traditional deep yellow carrots, we will get a lot of xanthophyll. This substance is a plant pigment that gives carrots their yellow color. It is really useful for the eyes because it helps brighten the eyes. It is also because of this substance that the eyes and carrots are distantly related.

Recently, people have created red carrots. Carrots are bright red like the color of tomatoes. This flamboyant carrot contains a lot of lycopene. This substance is extremely useful for cardiovascular diseases. Red carrots are sought after by people with coronary heart disease.

Another new type of carrot created in the lab by scientists acting as God, is the purple carrot. This one is as purple as the color of violets. But not only is it a strange purple color, it also has a lot of anthocyanin which helps prevent cancer and enhances the ability to produce hormones in women. And this carrot also enhances sexual ability!!!

Hard to believe but true: helmets are coming soon

Motorcycle helmets or motorcycle side frames are usually made of hard plastic or thin metal layers that are impact and abrasion resistant. These materials are often made of carbon fiber composites. The downside is that they cause environmental pollution. People are trying to find more environmentally friendly materials.

Recently, a group of scientists considered “eccentric” came up with the idea and seemed to be quite successful, which is to make a motorcycle helmet from carrots. Of course, people do not grow carrots larger than a person’s head and then carve them into a helmet because this helmet can go bad and moldy at any time.

Instead, nanofibers will be taken from the carrot fibers that are left after the carrots are squeezed to extract the juice. These nanofibers will be reinforced, processed, and then made as strong and tough as carbon fiber. Currently, carrot nanofibers are being tested and people expect that they can be applied. If everything that is still struggling is completely solved by scientists at the company Cellucomp (Scotland) in the laboratory, maybe one day soon, we will be wearing carrots on our heads and the world of industrial materials will also change. Carrots are quite tough, right?

Make women crazy

A group of researchers at the University of Glasgow and the University of Exeter (Norway) conducted experiments and concluded that some biological active substances in plants can slow down the aging process and thus prolong life. Another interesting thing they discovered: in a group of experimental animals, if a male has a longer life span and ages less, the female will be crazy infatuated.

Based on these findings, people went on a hunt for natural anti-aging substances. The results were truly surprising: animals that ate a lot of carrots or other orange-colored foods became slower to age and became more attractive to mates. And males that actively ate carrots (of course, animals that know how to eat carrots) were more attentive to females and often courted them.

The experiment was conducted on a type of fish called stickleback. The life span of each fish was monitored and their diets were monitored with different concentrations of carotenoids (from carrots). The results showed that the male sticklebacks that ate more carotenoids (from carrots) had brighter red throats and had more mates during the breeding season. So carrots are worth eating during that age of love.

Carrots magically transform your skin

Some women like smooth white skin, but many women also like a healthy and full of personality tanned skin. This is especially true for men who are too white like peeled eggs. Because the tan is still outstanding, dominant and full of health.

If you want to have a tanned skin as desired, you have to hunt for the sun every day, choose a sunny day, a nice sunny hour and expose yourself to the sand. It is also really hard work with beauty work. But recently, some scientists in Nottingham have researched and shown that if you actively eat carotene found in carrots and tomatoes, your skin will be much more radiant and healthy than the skin of the sun.

This is due to the following reasons: carotene has the effect of destroying free radicals, enhancing skin nourishment, creating the most suitable and natural skin tone. Therefore, the skin looks very fresh. Carrot treatment seems simpler for you, but it is a bit expensive because the sun is free while carrots cost money to buy.

Nanofibers from carrots.

About to become the "licorice" of cancer

In oriental medicine treatment regimens, licorice is considered a guide drug that helps the drug go in the right direction and reach the target organ. In cancer chemotherapy, people also need such guides because chemotherapy drugs are often extremely toxic drugs and the body often activates an automatic defense system, closing all intracellular transport channels to prevent the drug from penetrating deep inside. This is beneficial for nature but harmful for doctors because it is like putting the drug in and then having to take it out again.

However, you do not have to worry about this problem. Because it has been solved by researchers from the Institute of Plant and Food Research (Netherland). This group of experts discovered some valuable active ingredients in carrots that can disable the closure of these waterproof channels. That is, these channels force these channels to open to let the drug in. This has been proven to be effective, at least with breast cancer.

They tested and found that carrots can reduce the concentration of the drug-resistant protein in breast cancer, BCRP/ABCG2. As a result, the drug penetrated better and the cancer went from resistant to easy to treat. It turns out that carrots are really "awesome".

HIV vaccine candidate

A research group from the University of Orebro (Sweden) seems even more fantastical. Instead of producing vaccines on animal bodies such as bacteria, chicken eggs, plasmids, they turned to plants and used them to produce vaccines. This is truly a "crazy" idea and seems to be considered a scientific joke. But unfortunately, it became true and had results.

This research team genetically modified carrots to turn them into a type of carrot that contains the HIV virus antigen (p24 antigen). If the work is successful, we just need to eat this carrot and our body will have specific antibodies against the HIV virus (p24 antibody). They tested the genetic modification and of course they tested, there was this protein in the carrots labeled as HIV-resistant carrots. Then they fed these carrots to mice and were surprised, the mice had natural antibodies against HIV, of course, at low concentrations.

Scientists still have a long way to go before they can develop a vaccine, but it looks like they’ve succeeded. And if they do, it could mean, for the first time, we’ll have a vaccine we can eat and treat, rather than just inject. It turns out that carrots can turn a seemingly impossible story into a potentially useful topic for humanity.

According to SK&DS