Tinted carrots offer health benefits, colors
Selective breeding yields carrots high in healthy and colorful compounds:
"Xanthophylls give the yellow carrots their golden hues and have been linked with good eye health. Red carrots contain lycopene, a type of carotene also found in tomatoes that’s believed to guard against heart disease and some cancers.
Purple carrots owe their color to anthocyanins. In a class all by themselves, these pigments are considered to be powerful antioxidants that can guard the body’s fragile cells from the destructive effects of unstable molecules known as free radicals."
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/041122093132.htm
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