I love harvesting carrots.
The carrot is a root vegetable but orange is not the only color it comes in.
What other colors do carrots come in?
Carrots can be yellow, white, black, purple, and even red! Carrots come from Europe but are grown everywhere now.
Wow, that's awesome! What are the health benefits of eating carrots?
It is true that carrots have high quantities of alpha- and beta-carotene, and are a good source of vitamin K and vitamin B6. But the whole eye sight thing is a myth.
Are carrots natural or manmade?
Carrot
The carrot ("Daucus carota" subsp. "sativus") is a root vegetable, usually orange in colour, though purple, black, red, white, and yellow cultivars exist. Carrots are a domesticated form of the wild carrot, "Daucus carota", native to Europe and southwestern Asia. The plant probably originated in Persia and was originally cultivated for its leaves and seeds. The most commonly eaten part of the plant is the taproot, although the stems and leaves are eaten as well. The
as we now know them were grown possibly as early as the 13th century in the Low Countries (may have originated in Brussels). The first written reference dates to 1587. During the 16th century, they enjoyed a popularity in the Southern Netherlands that eventually spread throughout the cooler parts of Northern Europe.
Inventions and innovations Agriculture Orange-coloured carrot (16th century).
Through history, carrots weren't always orange. They were black, purple, white, brown, red and yellow. Probably orange too, but this