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Regardless of how you eat carrots, they are good for you and loaded with nutrients.

Raw carrots are inexpensive, highly nutritious and something you can take with you when you’re in a hurry.

Boiling carrots breaks down the fiber and makes the nutrients more accessible… HOWEVER boiling carrots results in many nutrients being lost in the water and, if you’re in a hurry, you probably won’t grab boiled carrots to snack on… but you may grab a raw carrot.

Lightly steaming carrots breaks down the fiber making the nutrients more accessible and no nutrients are lost to the water.

Nutritionally speaking carrots are excellent regardless of how you have them. There are no bad choices.

You get more nutrients from lightly steamed carrots than you get from raw carrots.

Studies conducted at the University or Arkansas show that blanching carrots for two minutes, canning them and cooking them at high temperature in the can yields the highest anti oxidant content of all. In other words… cooked, canned carrots are extremely high in anti oxidants and are very good for you.

The bottom line is…

You can ‘t go wrong eating carrots.

While you may get greater anti oxidant value in steamed or canned carrots, the overall nutritional value you get from raw carrots is VASTLY SUPERIOR to most other quick-snack choices.

The nutrients you get from raw carrots you actually are VASTLY SUPERIOR to the nutrients you don’t get from not eating steamed or boiled carrots because you were in too big a hurry to bother preparing them.

One final thought… anti oxidants in carrots are primarily in the skin, which means unpeeled carrots are nutritionally superior to peeled carrots 100% of the time.