Is it because they are not tasty or they dont digest correctly compared to raw carrots? Why only raw carrots basically? Or maybe they are good to eat raw?
Carrots have more sugars in them: sucrose, glucose, fructose, and maltose
If you pull a carrot out of the ground too early it won’t taste great because it takes a while for them to store these sugars.
Raw carrots are convenient and easier to eat in any quantity than raw sweet potatoes or beets. Unless you can get your mouth around a sweet potato and bite all the way through it like a carrot?? They’re just easier to chow down on when cooked. But you chop up a raw beet and eat it on a salad.
Raw beets are one of the ingredients that supermarkets put in their healthy salads over here. Cut in really thin slices.
Potatoes are poison uncooked.
Sweet potatoes on the other hand can be eaten raw (according to a quick google search).
You don’t digest carrots well at all when they’re raw. It’s just not as harsh.
Plants, especially vegetables and grains, tend to have anti nutrients and heavy amounts of resistant starch.
Unlike fruit, where it (most of the time) wants to be eaten so that we throw away the seed that will grow.
Now there are people who try to eat vegetables raw and say it’s fine. But then again, there are people who think you can eat chicken raw.
Afaik, we boil them to break them down to make them more easily digestible, so we get more energy out of them. If you eat things raw, your digestive system has to work harder, which burns more calories and extracts less energy and nutrients. I once saw a video of a experiment, where they let apes choose between boiled and raw potatoes, even though they didn’t know boiled potatoes, they chose them. It was suspected that they can smell that this is more nutritious/easily digestible.
Raw potatoes can be eaten but they aren’t as palatable and they may cause some belly upset because of the resistant starch…which can actually be good for you too. If you actually enjoy the taste enough to eat them raw, you definitely want to avoid the green ones as they have higher levels of glycoalkaloids…this is what people are referring to as “toxic”. Beets are amazing for you. I personally love them cooked with a little goat cheese on some butter lettuce. 😋😋
I eat a ton of raw vegetables. Potato’s are one of the only ones people generally do not eat raw because 1) it tastes terrible, and 2) can make you sick.
But most vegetables can be eaten raw, including beets and other root vegetables like onions, radish, etc.
Raw potatoes and Sweet potatoes are starchy, starch is not digested when raw feeding bad bacteria. Also Potatoes have solanine, lectins and it is reduced when cooked. Raw beets are fine to eat, I would encourage you to eat raw beets.
I just discovered raw zucchini salad recently (thinly sliced with vegetable peeler with vinaigrette dressing) and it was so delicious. Tried raw brussel sprouts and beets in salads at restaurants and they were even better than cooked. The brussel sprouts were just the inner leaves and they were sweet, tender, and wasn’t as strong as when cooked and was mixed with other salad greens. I was very resistant to the idea of eating these vegetables raw for decades but now I’m a convert
Grated raw beets in salads. Cooked they need lemon and small amount of butter to be good to me. also, there is a really good recipe out there for balsamic beet salad that has walnuts and parsley. But on the raw potatoes, I still don’t know if they are bad for digestion. I think we just don’t eat them because of the flavor and starch. Sweet potatoes, meh. They, to me, are not so great even cooked.
We bred carrots to taste the way they do. That’s really all it is
Nutritionally speaking, carrots are better for you when you cook them, as you absorb the carotenoids (beta carotene, etc) better than raw. But there’s nothing wrong with eaten then either way
Because food isn’t a boring and monotonous object. You can also eat raw onions, garlic and many more.Simply plants are many and all different, some a dangerous some are good and some are in the middle.It’s like comparing a fish to a snake.
There is a huge complexity in the plant kingdom. What we eat is just less than 0.01 % of what we can eat.