International Carrot Day

It’s International Carrot Day.

Yes, you heard right, we have an entire day devoted to an orange vegetable.

We’re all for it here in the SK kitchen, after all it is a staple in many of our dishes. It would be impossible to make a vegetable samosa or a spring roll without them and as we make millions of these each year, it’s fair to say we get through quite a lot of carrots!

Aside from tasting great in pretty much anything, here’s just a few reasons why you should nibble on more of them:

• Whilst it’s not true that they can help you to see in the dark (hey, but it’s a great thing to tell the kids to get them to eat more), they do contain a high level of beta-carotene, which the human body converts into Vitamin A and this helps protect the surface of the eye from any future damage.
• They contain an antioxidant known as carotenoid which research shows can help to fight cancer.
• They also contain alpha carotene and lutein, both of which have heart-protecting properties.
• They also contain (yes it’s the vegetable that keeps on giving) Vitamin C which can look after your skin.

So, on International Carrot Day, how about the following for breakfast, lunch and dinner:
Breakfast – Carrot smoothie
Lunch – Carrot and coriander soup
Dinner – Roast chicken dinner with lots of carrots
Dessert – Carrot cake (what else?)

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