Nutrient data for 11124, Carrots, raw

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Food Group: Vegetables and Vegetable Products

Common Name: Includes USDA commodity food A099

Scientific Name: Daucus carota

Carbohydrate Factor: 3.84 Fat Factor: 8.37 Protein Factor: 2.78 Nitrogen to Protein Conversion Factor: 6.25

Refuse: 11% Refuse Description: Crown, tops and scrapings

Modifying household measures

Nutrient values and weights are for edible portion

Nutrient	Unit	Value per 100.0g	# of Data Points	Std. Error	cup chopped 128g	cup grated 110g	cup strips or slices 122g	large (7-1/4" to 8-/1/2" long) 72g	medium 61g	small (5-1/2" long) 50g	slice 3g	strip large (3" long) 7g	strip medium 4g

Proximates
Water ¹	g	88.29	33	0.429	113.01	97.12	107.71	63.57	53.86	44.14	2.65	6.18	3.53
Energy	kcal	41	--	--	52	45	50	30	25	20	1	3	2
Energy	kJ	173	--	--	221	190	211	125	106	86	5	12	7
Protein ¹	g	0.93	19	0.008	1.19	1.02	1.13	0.67	0.57	0.46	0.03	0.07	0.04
Total lipid (fat) ¹	g	0.24	26	0.018	0.31	0.26	0.29	0.17	0.15	0.12	0.01	0.02	0.01
Ash ¹	g	0.97	19	0.014	1.24	1.07	1.18	0.70	0.59	0.48	0.03	0.07	0.04
Carbohydrate, by difference	g	9.58	--	--	12.26	10.54	11.69	6.90	5.84	4.79	0.29	0.67	0.38
Fiber, total dietary ¹	g	2.8	4	--	3.6	3.1	3.4	2.0	1.7	1.4	0.1	0.2	0.1
Sugars, total	g	4.74	--	--	6.07	5.21	5.78	3.41	2.89	2.37	0.14	0.33	0.19
Sucrose ¹	g	3.59	11	0.280	4.60	3.95	4.38	2.58	2.19	1.80	0.11	0.25	0.14
Glucose (dextrose) ¹	g	0.59	11	0.141	0.76	0.65	0.72	0.42	0.36	0.30	0.02	0.04	0.02
Fructose ¹	g	0.55	11	0.097	0.70	0.61	0.67	0.40	0.34	0.28	0.02	0.04	0.02
Lactose ¹	g	0.00	5	0.000	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Maltose ¹	g	0.00	5	0.000	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Galactose	g	0.00	--	--	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Starch ¹	g	1.43	2	--	1.83	1.57	1.74	1.03	0.87	0.72	0.04	0.10	0.06
Minerals
Calcium, Ca ¹	mg	33	75	1.120	42	36	40	24	20	16	1	2	1
Iron, Fe ¹	mg	0.30	75	0.014	0.38	0.33	0.37	0.22	0.18	0.15	0.01	0.02	0.01
Magnesium, Mg ¹	mg	12	75	0.367	15	13	15	9	7	6	0	1	0
Phosphorus, P ¹	mg	35	75	0.755	45	38	43	25	21	18	1	2	1
Potassium, K ¹	mg	320	76	8.418	410	352	390	230	195	160	10	22	13
Sodium, Na ¹	mg	69	81	3.358	88	76	84	50	42	34	2	5	3
Zinc, Zn ¹	mg	0.24	76	0.011	0.31	0.26	0.29	0.17	0.15	0.12	0.01	0.02	0.01
Copper, Cu ¹	mg	0.045	70	0.007	0.058	0.050	0.055	0.032	0.027	0.022	0.001	0.003	0.002
Manganese, Mn ¹	mg	0.143	66	0.006	0.183	0.157	0.174	0.103	0.087	0.072	0.004	0.010	0.006
Selenium, Se	µg	0.1	39	0.038	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Fluoride, F ² ¹⁵ ¹⁸	µg	3.2	21	0.466	4.1	3.5	3.9	2.3	2.0	1.6	0.1	0.2	0.1
Vitamins
Vitamin C, total ascorbic acid ¹	mg	5.9	21	1.130	7.6	6.5	7.2	4.2	3.6	3.0	0.2	0.4	0.2
Thiamin ¹	mg	0.066	21	0.011	0.084	0.073	0.081	0.048	0.040	0.033	0.002	0.005	0.003
Riboflavin ¹	mg	0.058	19	0.013	0.074	0.064	0.071	0.042	0.035	0.029	0.002	0.004	0.002
Niacin ¹	mg	0.983	19	0.215	1.258	1.081	1.199	0.708	0.600	0.492	0.029	0.069	0.039
Pantothenic acid ¹	mg	0.273	9	0.145	0.349	0.300	0.333	0.197	0.167	0.136	0.008	0.019	0.011
Vitamin B-6 ¹	mg	0.138	19	0.030	0.177	0.152	0.168	0.099	0.084	0.069	0.004	0.010	0.006
Folate, total ¹	µg	19	19	5.175	24	21	23	14	12	10	1	1	1
Folic acid	µg	0	--	--	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Folate, food	µg	19	19	5.175	24	21	23	14	12	10	1	1	1
Folate, DFE	µg	19	--	--	24	21	23	14	12	10	1	1	1
Choline, total ¹	mg	8.8	--	--	11.3	9.7	10.7	6.3	5.4	4.4	0.3	0.6	0.4
Betaine ¹	mg	0.4	1	--	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
Vitamin B-12	µg	0.00	--	--	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Vitamin B-12, added	µg	0.00	--	--	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Vitamin A, RAE	µg	835	--	--	1069	918	1019	601	509	418	25	58	33
Retinol	µg	0	--	--	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Carotene, beta ¹ ³ ⁴ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸ ⁹ ¹⁰ ¹¹ ¹² ¹³ ¹⁴ ¹⁶ ¹⁷	µg	8285	197	1082.194	10605	9114	10108	5965	5054	4142	249	580	331
Carotene, alpha ¹ ³ ⁴ ⁷ ⁸ ⁹ ¹⁰ ¹¹ ¹² ¹³ ¹⁴ ¹⁶ ¹⁷	µg	3477	190	531.987	4451	3825	4242	2503	2121	1738	104	243	139
Cryptoxanthin, beta ¹²	µg	0	45	--	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Vitamin A, IU	IU	16706	--	--	21384	18377	20381	12028	10191	8353	501	1169	668
Lycopene ¹ ¹⁴	µg	1	8	0.800	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0
Lutein + zeaxanthin	µg	256	10	62.707	328	282	312	184	156	128	8	18	10
Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol) ¹	mg	0.66	11	0.269	0.84	0.73	0.81	0.48	0.40	0.33	0.02	0.05	0.03
Vitamin E, added	mg	0.00	--	--	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Tocopherol, beta ¹	mg	0.01	11	0.005	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Tocopherol, gamma ¹	mg	0.00	11	0.000	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Tocopherol, delta ¹	mg	0.00	11	0.000	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Vitamin D (D2 + D3)	µg	0.0	--	--	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Vitamin D	IU	0	--	--	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Vitamin K (phylloquinone) ¹	µg	13.2	4	--	16.9	14.5	16.1	9.5	8.1	6.6	0.4	0.9	0.5
Lipids
Fatty acids, total saturated	g	0.037	--	--	0.047	0.041	0.045	0.027	0.023	0.018	0.001	0.003	0.001
4:0	g	0.000	--	--	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
6:0	g	0.000	--	--	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
8:0 ¹	g	0.000	2	--	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
10:0 ¹	g	0.000	2	--	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
12:0 ¹	g	0.000	2	--	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
14:0 ¹	g	0.000	2	--	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
15:0 ¹	g	0.000	2	--	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
16:0 ¹	g	0.035	2	--	0.045	0.039	0.043	0.025	0.021	0.018	0.001	0.002	0.001
17:0 ¹	g	0.000	2	--	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
18:0 ¹	g	0.002	2	--	0.003	0.002	0.002	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.000	0.000	0.000
20:0 ¹	g	0.000	2	--	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
22:0 ¹	g	0.000	2	--	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
24:0 ¹	g	0.000	2	--	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Fatty acids, total monounsaturated	g	0.014	--	--	0.018	0.015	0.017	0.010	0.009	0.007	0.000	0.001	0.001
14:1 ¹	g	0.000	2	--	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
15:1 ¹	g	0.000	2	--	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
16:1 undifferentiated ¹	g	0.002	2	--	0.003	0.002	0.002	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.000	0.000	0.000
17:1 ¹	g	0.000	2	--	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
18:1 undifferentiated ¹	g	0.012	2	--	0.015	0.013	0.015	0.009	0.007	0.006	0.000	0.001	0.000
20:1 ¹	g	0.000	2	--	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
22:1 undifferentiated ¹	g	0.000	2	--	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Fatty acids, total polyunsaturated	g	0.117	--	--	0.150	0.129	0.143	0.084	0.071	0.058	0.004	0.008	0.005
18:2 undifferentiated ¹	g	0.115	2	--	0.147	0.126	0.140	0.083	0.070	0.058	0.003	0.008	0.005
18:3 undifferentiated ¹	g	0.002	2	--	0.003	0.002	0.002	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.000	0.000	0.000
18:4 ¹	g	0.000	2	--	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
20:2 n-6 c,c ¹	g	0.000	2	--	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
20:3 undifferentiated ¹	g	0.000	2	--	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
20:4 undifferentiated ¹	g	0.000	2	--	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
20:5 n-3 (EPA) ¹	g	0.000	2	--	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
22:5 n-3 (DPA) ¹	g	0.000	2	--	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
22:6 n-3 (DHA) ¹	g	0.000	2	--	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Fatty acids, total trans	g	0.000	--	--	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Cholesterol	mg	0	--	--	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Amino Acids
Tryptophan ⁵	g	0.012	--	--	0.015	0.013	0.015	0.009	0.007	0.006	0.000	0.001	0.000
Threonine ⁵	g	0.191	--	--	0.244	0.210	0.233	0.138	0.117	0.096	0.006	0.013	0.008
Isoleucine ⁵	g	0.077	--	--	0.099	0.085	0.094	0.055	0.047	0.038	0.002	0.005	0.003
Leucine ⁵	g	0.102	--	--	0.131	0.112	0.124	0.073	0.062	0.051	0.003	0.007	0.004
Lysine ⁵	g	0.101	--	--	0.129	0.111	0.123	0.073	0.062	0.051	0.003	0.007	0.004
Methionine ⁵	g	0.020	--	--	0.026	0.022	0.024	0.014	0.012	0.010	0.001	0.001	0.001
Cystine ⁵	g	0.083	--	--	0.106	0.091	0.101	0.060	0.051	0.042	0.002	0.006	0.003
Phenylalanine ⁵	g	0.061	--	--	0.078	0.067	0.074	0.044	0.037	0.030	0.002	0.004	0.002
Tyrosine ⁵	g	0.043	--	--	0.055	0.047	0.052	0.031	0.026	0.022	0.001	0.003	0.002
Valine ⁵	g	0.069	--	--	0.088	0.076	0.084	0.050	0.042	0.034	0.002	0.005	0.003
Arginine ⁵	g	0.091	--	--	0.116	0.100	0.111	0.066	0.056	0.046	0.003	0.006	0.004
Histidine ⁵	g	0.040	--	--	0.051	0.044	0.049	0.029	0.024	0.020	0.001	0.003	0.002
Alanine ⁵	g	0.113	--	--	0.145	0.124	0.138	0.081	0.069	0.056	0.003	0.008	0.005
Aspartic acid ⁵	g	0.190	--	--	0.243	0.209	0.232	0.137	0.116	0.095	0.006	0.013	0.008
Glutamic acid ⁵	g	0.366	--	--	0.468	0.403	0.447	0.264	0.223	0.183	0.011	0.026	0.015
Glycine ⁵	g	0.047	--	--	0.060	0.052	0.057	0.034	0.029	0.024	0.001	0.003	0.002
Proline ⁵	g	0.054	--	--	0.069	0.059	0.066	0.039	0.033	0.027	0.002	0.004	0.002
Serine ⁵	g	0.054	--	--	0.069	0.059	0.066	0.039	0.033	0.027	0.002	0.004	0.002
Other
Alcohol, ethyl	g	0.0	--	--	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Caffeine	mg	0	--	--	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Theobromine	mg	0	--	--	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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LanguaL Code(s)

A0152 VEGETABLE OR VEGETABLE PRODUCT (US CFR)
A1281 1100 VEGETABLES AND VEGETABLE PRODUCTS (USDA SR)
B1227 CARROT
C0240 ROOT, TUBER OR BULB, WITHOUT PEEL
E0150 WHOLE, NATURAL SHAPE
F0003 NOT HEAT-TREATED
G0003 COOKING METHOD NOT APPLICABLE
H0003 NO TREATMENT APPLIED
J0001 PRESERVATION METHOD NOT KNOWN
K0003 NO PACKING MEDIUM USED
M0001 CONTAINER OR WRAPPING NOT KNOWN
N0001 FOOD CONTACT SURFACE NOT KNOWN
P0024 HUMAN FOOD, NO AGE SPECIFICATION