Researchers from the University of ...

Researchers from the University of Newcastle, Australia, and the Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences have identified a chemical compose in carrots--called falcarinol--as responsible for lowering the risk of cancer from as much as one-third.

Epidemiological studies have reported that carrot consumption can lower cancer risk on as much as 40 percent unless the cancer-fighting component wasn't identified until now. Falcarinol, a intermingle found in carrots, celery, parsnips and other plants, houses against fungal diseases.

The scientists, writing in the February 9 2005 issue of the Journal of Agricultural and provisions Chemistry, cautioned that the carrots used in the application of mind were raw. It is not notwithstanding known whether juiced or falsifyed carrots would produce the same effect

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