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Carrots vs. Baby Carrots

Choosing the most antioxidant-packed carrots, onions, and lettuce.

October 16, 2010 |
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Carrots vs. Baby Carrots, 4.5 out of 5 based on 2 ratings

Sources Cited

U.S. Department of Agriculture. Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) of Selected Foods—2007. November 2007.

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Transcript

Carrots, or the same weight in baby carrots? Does the smaller is better rule for grapes work with carrots? How many say regular carrots are healthier? How many say baby carrots??? Sorry. Regular carrots are actually smaller. “Baby” carrots are just mechanically whittled from monster carrots.

 

Let’s try a three-way. Which is healthier—iceberg lettuce, Boston lettuce, or red leaf lettuce? Hmm… How many say iceberg??? How many say green leaf lettuce??? How many say red leaf? ?? And the winner is red leaf. Those who said green leaf please sit down and those who said iceberg definitely sit down.

 

Which is healthier—red onions, white onions, or yellow onions? How many say red??? How many say white??? And how many say yellow??? Anyone voting white or yellow, please… sit down. Look at this! I don’t want to see anyone ever buying white onions ever again. If you have a choice, always buy red—off the charts in terms of phytonutrient flavenol content.

To see any graphs, charts, graphics, images, and quotes to which Dr. Greger may be referring watch the above video. This is just an approximation of the audio contributed by Dianne Moore.

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Dr. Michael Greger

Doctor's Note

Please feel free to post any ask-the-doctor type questions here in the comments section and I’d be happy to try to answer them. And check out the other videos on phytonutrients. Also, there are 1,449 other subjects covered in the rest of my videos--please feel free to explore them as well!

For some context, please check out my associated blog post: The Best Foods: test your nutrition knowledge

  • http://nutritionfacts.org/members/mgreger/ Michael Greger M.D.

    Please feel free to post any ask-the-doctor type questions here in the comments section and I’d be happy to try to answer them. And check out the other videos on phytonutrients. Also, there are 1,449 other subjects covered in the rest of my videos–please feel free to explore them as well!

  • Michael Greger M.D.

    For some context, please check out my associated blog post The Best Foods: Test Your Nutrition Knowledge!

  • http://www.facebook.com/timmeh.green Timothy Green

    Today I learned that RED leaf lettuce has the most antioxidants, IdaRED apples have the most amongst apples, and RED onions are the best amongst onions.  Is there a connection?  Are red bell peppers better than green/orange/yellow? cayenne?

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