Biotic Factors References Uses Cultivated for the enlarged fleshy taproot, eaten as a raw vegetable or cooked in many dishes. Eaten sliced, diced, cut up, or shoe-stringed, carrots are used in many mixed vegetable combinations. They are sold in bunches, or canned, frozen, or dehydrated. They may be baked, sauteed, pickled, and glazed, or served in combination with meats, in stews, roasts, soups, meat loaf or curries. Roasted carrots have served as coffee substitutes.
Carrot juice is beneficial.
Britishers once brewed a good wine from carrot. Essential oil is used to flavor liqueurs and perfumes. Carrotseed oil, blended with cedarwood oil, is a good imitation of orris. Folk Medicine Seeds are aromatic, carminative, diuretic, emmenagogue, and stimulant, and are used for dropsy, chronic dysentery, kidney ailments, and worms. Also as an aphrodisiac, a nervine tonic, and for uterine pain.