You know carrots for their vitamin A content and strawberries for the vitamin C all berries are famous for. But the vegetable, a cool-season root, and the fruit, which ancient Romans used as medicine, offer more nutrients than these two vitamins. Both are also low-calorie foods with no grams of fat.
Vitamins
Carrots and strawberries have the same 13 vitamins and they both lack vitamins B-12 and D. The vitamins appear in different concentrations in each food. Three and a half ounces of raw carrots contain 16,706 IU of vitamin A, for example. That number represents 334 percent of the recommended daily intake for the nutrient. The same weight of strawberries, on the other hand, offers 12 IU of vitamin A, an amount that does not impact your health. Vitamin C is strawberries' biggest contribution at 58.8 mg per 3.5 ounces.
Minerals
Minerals are either macro or trace elements. Your body needs macrominerals in large quantity and it requires just hints of trace minerals. In carrots, potassium appears with the highest percentage -- 7 percent -- of a recommended daily intake for a macromineral. Strawberries offer 3 percent of the suggested intake for potassium and magnesium. The concentration of manganese is the highest among trace minerals in carrots, which offer 7 percent of the daily intake, and in strawberries, which provide 19 percent.
Amino Acids
Amino acids are the parts of a protein. They are either essential or nonessential. Your body cannot produce essential amino acids, so you must get them from food. Nonessential amino acids are made "in-house," and are available from what you eat, as well. Carrots and strawberries have all the essential and non-essential amino acids, with the root vegetable providing a higher concentration of them than the berry.
Carbohydrates
The sugar compounds your body breaks down to use as fuel are called carbohydrates. A 3.5 oz. serving of raw carrots provides 9.58 g of carbohydrates. The same amount of strawberries gives you 7.68 g. The two foods contain the same three types of sugar: fructose, sucrose and glucose.
Other Nutrients
Strawberries and carrots have insignificant accumulations of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. When you look at the concentration of water per 100 g of these foods, you notice both the fruit and the vegetable are mostly moisture. Carrots are 88.29 g water and strawberries have 90.95 g of liquid in them.
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