Whole-cooked carrots better at fighting cancer

(BBC News) UPDATED 2009-06-29

Carrots that are boiled first before being cut retain 25 percent more of their cancer-fighting nutrients than carrots that are cut first, then cooked, researchers say. The British study found that whole-cooked carrots had more of the cancer-fighting compound falcarinol--an ingredient that has been found to reduce the risk of tumors by up to one-third. Read full story >

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Whole-cooked carrots better at fighting cancer

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