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Entry: Making Carrot Juice - A49214586
Author: pailaway - (an utterly gratuitous link in the evolutionary chain) - U2750614

Here's a topic that I actually know something about. Go figure.

Ain't nature grand?

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That's "gods"

Great entry ET

GB

Hi Pailaway,

Wondered why you'd put this into PR without any links, for example to A823286

Surprised you haven't mentioned the health benefits of carrot juice; e.g contains beta-carotene, a powerful anti-oxidant that is particularly effective against lung cancer- evenamong formerly heavy smokers. Apparently, one medium carrot's worth of BC/day is sufficient to reduce the risk of lung cancer by 50%.

A single carrot provides enough BC for the body to convert to a whole day's supply of Vitamin A. tHIS IS REQUIRED TO MAKE 'VISUAL PURPLE' FORMED IN THE BACK OF THE EYE TO ENABLE US TO SEE IN DIM LIGHT for shouting. (This was the basis for the apocryphal WWII story of RAF pilots being fed carrots, thus covering up the British invention of radar

Vitamin A is also required for healthy skin and mucuous membranes.

BC is also protective against degenerative eye diseases, e.g. cataracts and macular degeneration.


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You get 5 x more BC from raw carrots (i.e. juiced) than from cooked.

Thanks ET


Big Al, this does need a bunch of links to be sure - for some reason I always leave those for later but I'll abandon that habit as of now.

I'll also include a section on health benefits - although carrot juice is so good I'd drink the stuff even if it was bad for me.

I'm off to add your suggestions - and I'll further want some comment from you on a point of chemistry I'm about to add that the beta-carotene is only two vitamin A's waiting to happen and humans bodies can split beta carotene in two to react with a single water molecule to form Vitamin A and some other byproduct in the alcohol family - but they will only do so when they want to. Consequently, you cannot overdose on Vitamin A from drinking vast quantities of carrot juice.

Thanks

Yes. As I'm sure you know, Entriews shouldn't ber put into PR until the author is sure it's ready and, to my mind, that includes links

I was just about to say that this would be getting into too complex (and unnecessary chemistry) until I read:



Hmm. I wasn't aware of this, but maybe you should just make that simple statement without going into the chemistry. Mebbe s'thing like, 'For reasons of complex chemistry it is impossible to overdose on Vit A from drinking too much carrot juice Too much vitamin C in the diet is poisonous as it is stored, and this can affect the skin and joints, especially in children.

However, I'll continue to give this aspect some more thought

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Ok, I've added much of the information you offered Big Al, i'll add you as researcher if you like.

I've kept the chemistry bit more or less intact just to see how it looks, but i'll change it later if it seems cumbersome.

Very good, Pailly


Now, can you please add a fullstop in the Entry, after your second footnote

Yes, I think that's Pailaway.

Link also to 'Vitamins in Nutrition' A1002763.

Since you mention 'overdosing', I think you should include the footnote I suggested about the dangers of Vit A excess .

A

Thanks

and what on earth are you two doing up so late? has my entry not put you to sleep yet?

Here's the correct code, pails
After your tag:

BigAl

then goes the
tag



The code won't display until the entry has edited status, but that's normal

ET

Thanks

btw, have you found the gratuitous links yet? (it's sort of a "where's waldo" kind of thing that I so enjoy)

Yes

Is this why Bugs Bunny always looks so damned perky?

Paily. The week is off to a good start

'...and what on earth are you two doing up so late? has my entry not put you to sleep yet?'

Well, what happened was that hootoo wouldn't allow me on most of the evening. Something about 'lots of activity on the server'.

So, I was downstairs reading a backlog of magazines etc and fell asleep..

I tried hootoo again just as I came to bed.

Some more links:

Eyes > A48812637
Vision > A18188670
Cataracts > A3328346
Radar > A591545

A

Some interesting things in there.

A word to the wise though - I've found that carrot juice's powers of staining can be second only to beetroot, sometimes. Don't know if you want to mention that, but there it is.

Happy to brighten up a monday


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I'd forgotten about staining - you're right - I'll think about where to put that and make the change tomorrow (it's a little late here just now)

And bugs bunny - how could I leave him out - I'll think upon that too.

Staining only happens if spilt I doubt there's much spillage in that family

Hey, nice, informative and pleasantly written Entry

Now some minor remarks and comments, make of these what you wish:

"More about that later" -- a full stop is missing.

carrot tops -- you mean the green herby stuff? I think you can make soup out of them ('la soupe de queues de carottes' seems an oddly familiar concept to me ).

Bob's your uncle -- you could link to A3006172 or A506350

Another benefit, or so it is claimed in France, is that carrots make people friendly. So if you meet someone grumpy, you can tell them that they should eat more carrots (or, more to the point here, drink carrot juice).

If you used that line on me, I'd think you were trying to chat me up