Carrots are a popular vegetable for young and old, which contains many vitamins A, B and E, among other things. The very healthy yellow beets have a sweet taste and are easy to digest. Therefore, they belong to the first solid baby food.

With the right tool, peeling carrots is easy

Carrots are available in supermarkets all year round. In your own garden, they are usually ripe in the summer months. Very fresh, tender carrots do not need to be peeled. Their skin is wafer-thin and is eaten with them. Older carrots, such as storage carrots that are kept in a pile over the winter, have a firm and often dry skin that can also taste slightly bitter. The peel should be removed before consumption.

Tips and tricks for peeling carrots properly

When peeling carrots, make sure that the skin is removed in as thin a layer as possible. As with apples and pears, most of the vitamins are under the skin. A suitable tool is therefore a vegetable or vegetable peeler.

  1. When buying carrots, make sure that the goods are fresh or, in the case of stored carrots, that there are no rotten spots on the vegetables.
  2. Wash the carrots under running water. Heavy encrustations of dirt can be removed with a vegetable brush.
  3. Now hold the carrot between the thumb and forefinger of one hand and take the vegetable peeler or paring knife in the other.
  4. Pull the peeler at an angle from the thick end of the carrot to the tip. Using a knife, try to cut off a thin layer of skin from the carrot in the same way.
  5. If the peeler has two blades, it can also be peeled in the opposite direction, i.e. always down and then up again.
  6. Turn the carrot and cut off another strip of skin. Repeat the process until the beet is peeled.
  7. Now cut off the base of the stem with a knife. The carrot can now be eaten or further processed.

Special peeling methods

If you don't have a vegetable peeler, you can use a serrated knife or a fresh metal wire scourer.
If you want to use a serrated knife, take the carrot between your thumb and forefinger again. Using the knife, scrape the skin off the carrot from top to bottom. With a little practice, “scraping carrots” can be done quickly. You can remove the skin from the beets with the scourer just as quickly. Hold the carrot firmly in your hand and scrape the skin off with the metal scraper.
Both of these methods are good for peeling very fresh carrots because they scrape very little of the skin. Most of the vitamins are therefore retained.

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