{"id":18801,"date":"2015-01-10T02:12:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T10:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=18801"},"modified":"2015-01-10T02:12:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T10:12:09","slug":"california-carrots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-carrots\/","title":{"rendered":"California Carrots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/hocarot.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Carrots don&#8217;t always get their just desserts in California, the top fresh carrot producing state, where two companies are credited with\u00a0processing the majority of all carrot products sold\u00a0in the U.S.\u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/farms\/carrots.html\">year-round carrot crop<\/a> grown commercially in\u00a0four regions of the state (Central Coast, Southern Desert, High Desert and\u00a0San Joaquin Valley \/\u00a0Cuyama Valley,) is a primary\u00a0source of beta-carotene, an antioxidant effective in fighting against some forms of cancer, especially lung cancer. Current research suggests that it may also protect against stroke, and heart disease. A 1\/2 cup serving of cooked carrots contains four times the recommended daily intake of vitamin A in the form of protective beta-carotene.<\/p>\n<p>All eyes are on the carrot come Jan. 30 &#8211; Feb. 8, 2015 when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/holtville-carrot-festival.html\">Holtville Carrot Festival<\/a> holds an annual event with a carnival, parade and cooking contests that span many days and a variety of age groups, culminating in the final cooking showdown. Holtville, California is known as The Carrot Capital of the World.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrots don&#8217;t always get their just desserts in California, the top fresh carrot producing state, where two companies are credited with\u00a0processing the majority of all carrot products sold\u00a0in the U.S.\u00a0The year-round carrot crop grown commercially in\u00a0four regions of the state (Central Coast, Southern Desert, High Desert and\u00a0San Joaquin Valley \/\u00a0Cuyama Valley,) is a primary\u00a0source of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18801"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}