Cumin-Roasted Carrots with Chickpeas and Tomatoes

Enjoy these savory veggies as they are or serve them over your favorite cooked whole grains or a bed of leafy greens. The roasting time depends on the size of your carrots. Thinner carrots may be done in 20 to 25 minutes, while larger ones may take up to 45 minutes, so adjust the roasting time accordingly.Including more fruits and vegetables to your meals not only adds a nutritional punch, but it also makes your dishes more colorful. Those colors are the antioxidants, the disease-preventing phytonutrients. Plant-based foods contain more than 100,000 biologically active components—more specifically, more than 100,000 phyto-nutrients, phyto for the Greek word for “plant.”Hundreds of phytonutrients have been found to have anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activity. For example, beta-carotene makes carrots and sweet potatoes orange, lycopene makes tomatoes and watermelon red, and anthocyanins make blueberries and purple sweet potatoes look blue and purple. Eating a variety of colorful fruits and vegetables throughout the day ensures we get a wide variety of the phytonutrients found in whole plant-based foods.

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% Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie diet

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