A homophone is a word that sounds the same as another word but has a different meaning and/or spelling. âFlowerâ and âflourâ are homophones because they are pronounced the same but you certainly canât bake a cake using daffodils.
Whereas the calorie content in a medium sized raw carrot is 4 calories, a large sized carrot is 5 calories, 1 cup of raw grated carrots have 45 calories, 1 cup of chopped raw carrots has 52 calories, 1 oz of raw carrot has around 10 calories, 3 and half oz of raw carrot has 35 calories and 7 oz of raw carrot has 60 calories.
The carrot gets its characteristic, bright orange colour from Î²-carotene, and lesser amounts of Î±-carotene, Î³-carotene, lutein and zeaxanthin. Î±- and Î²-carotenes are partly metabolized into vitamin A, providing more than 100% of the Daily Value (DV) per 100 g serving of carrots (right table). Carrots are also a good source of vitamin K (13% DV) and vitamin B6 (11% DV), but otherwise have modest content of other essential nutrients (right table). Carrots are 88% water, 4.7% sugar, 2.6% protein, 1% ash, and 0.2% fat.