Wednesday 1 February 2012

Carrots: The Natural Aspirin?

Studies show that carrots are a rich source of natural salicylates.

You know that aspirin is salicylic acid, commonly used for any type of inflammation.

The study showed that vegetarians have serum concentrations of salicylic acid as high as those of people ingesting 75 mg of aspirin a day, the amount in half of a baby aspirin.

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