Carrot Crunch Kids

Carrots are the nation’s favourite vegetable1 with consumers munching their way through 700,000 tonnes a year – that’s around 100 carrots per person.

Carrots are extremely good for you.  They are high in fibre and brimming with beta-carotene, which the body uses to make vitamin A, a nutrient that’s needed for growth and healthy hair and skin as well as good vision.

Studies have shown many children and adults have intakes well below the recommended levels. In addition they’re high in fibre and half a medium sized carrot counts as one of your 5-A-DAY.

How to Get Your Kids Eating More Carrots…

 

• Fill jacket potatoes or sandwiches with a mixture of grated carrot and Red Leicester cheese. 

• Serve carrot sticks with favourite dips such as houmous or cheese and onion. 

• Roast carrots with other root vegetables like potatoes, parsnips and swede. 

• Add grated carrots to salad and toss with all the other ingredients. 

• Grate carrots and add to stews, casseroles, pasta sauces and curries – they’ll disintegrate into the sauce so you can’t see them. 

• If coleslaw is a hit, add extra grated carrot to your regular brand before serving. 

• Add extra cooked carrots to canned or cartons of soup, then liquidise before serving. 

• Mix mashed carrots with mashed potato, then use to top cottage pie or fish pie.

And if these scrumptious serving suggestions don’t have your kids scoffing carrots then why not enlist the help of Captain Carrot. Visit www.carrot4kids.co.uk to find out how this superhero and his friends overcome the greasy evils.

The website is packed with games and fun facts from Captain Carrot’s comrades including Spud, Red Onion, Supercorn, Agent Sprout and the Peas. This vitamin packed gang fight against Baron von Burger and his army of Noxious Nuggets to help teach your kids how cool healthy eating really is.

For some delicious carrot recipes try www.britishcarrots.co.uk.

1 Mintel May 2001