To get your children to eat vegetables, do you often opt for the grated carrot option? While some can be similar to homemade ones, others should be avoided. Here is the best tray to choose, according to Yuka experts.
What do grated carrots contain?
If in the homemade version, the recipe for grated carrots is rather simplistic (it only contains vegetables, sugar and lemon juice), the industrial containers are full of additives (to stabilize their orange color and avoid oxidation), vegetable oils (often rapeseed), sugar and salt.
Result ? Even if this starter highlights a vegetable – the carrot – it can quickly become too fatty and too salty, raising it to the rank of processed food.
The sauce from grated carrots, rich in guar gum – a food additive used as a thickener and stabilizer – is also not recommended for your health.
“It is this caloric intake that makes eating industrial grated carrots a problem for your health.” confirms dietician Raphaël Grüman to Top Santé.
However, a punnet of carrots would seem to stand out on the shelves due to its composition. Let’s see together which one it is.
One tray stands out from the others
Drum roll… According to the Yuka application, it is the Bonduelle carrots with lemon juice that stand out. With a score of 78/100, and a Nutri-Score A, they accumulate good points.
Fresh French carrots, Dijon mustard, spirit vinegar, garlic puree, rapeseed oil, Sicilian lemon juice… These carrots are undoubtedly similar to homemade ones. The only flaw: the addition of thickeners, here xanthan gum and guar gum.
Despite everything, the overall recipe for this tray and its energy value remain correct (73 calories per 100 grams).
Something to indulge in from time to time for this starter, which will allow you to stock up on fiber.