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. Roots are refrigerant and are used in infusion for threadworm. Diuretic, and eliminating uric acid, carrots belong in the diet of gout-prone people.