Carrot Nutrition: Vitamins, Side Effects & Cooking Tips

Carrots are famous for Vitamin A, but excessive consumption can change your skin or urine color. Learn if baby carrots are as nutritious as large ones and find the best ways to cook them soft for kids or as crunchy sticks.

How Many Calories in Carrot Sticks?

Published Jul,08 2011 | By Erin Beck

Choose carrot sticks instead of chips or crackers for a snack. Carrot sticks are a healthy, low-calorie food. They're a good source of dietary fiber, vitamin A, vitamin K and manganese.

Erin Beck began writing professionally in 2008 as an opinion columnist for the West Virginia University student newspaper, "The Daily Athenaeum." She has worked in health promotion at the university and as a communications intern at the National Alliance on Mental Illness. She has a Bachelor of Science in journalism and a Master of Public Health, both from West Virginia University.