Why were carrots originally purple?

Answer 1

Yes, purple carrots where around as early as 2000 BC. Though they are one of the earliest documented carrots they are not the only natural variety; yellow, white, red and even black carrots have been found in various parts of the world. The orange carrots we eat today where actually believed to have been developed by the Dutch around the 16th century involving yellow and white carrot seeds and the addition of extra beta-carotene (vitamin A)-- therefore the orange carrot is probably the only carrot that was not originally "naturally grown" but rather breed. Purple carrots are found to have properties in them that help prevent cancer, which the newer varieties of orange carrots do not have.

Answer 2

No, but there are white carrots now. The ancestors of carrots had purple skins, with yellow or orange cores. Varieties in India had red skins with orange cores. Orange-skinned carrots were developed by Dutch breeders in the 1600's.

Answer 3

Domestic carrots were originally white, purple or yellow. Later varieties were red, deeper yellow and orange.

The true, deep orange "modern" carrots were probably developed by Dutch agriculturists in the 15th Century. Orange carrotsprobably arrived from mutations of yellow forms, and then from human selection and development, probably in the Netherlands. It is thought that humans made selections from a gene pool involving yellow rooted eastern carrots, cultivated white-rooted derivatives of wild carrot (grown as medicinal plants since classical times) and wild unselected populations of adjacent Daucus Carota subspecies in Europe and the Mediterranean.

Wild carrots were (and still are) white or pinkish roots.

The World Carrot Museum has a fully documented history of carrots.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Carrots have historically been many colors, chiefly purple and yellow very early on. The Greeks and the Romans regarded carrots more as medicinal plants than food plants, and many varieties appear in Greek and Roman medical texts. Galen, writing in the second century CE, coined a Latin term for carrot to distinguish it from the parsnip, which were both described as "dirty white" in color, so I would think the carrots known to the Romans as food rather than medicine were probably white.

Answer 6

orange syempre, wala namang ibang color ang carrots diba, isip isip naman pag may time!

Answer 7

Purple.

The recent orange colour was only introduced by Dutch agriculturalists in the 1500's. There also used to be white, pale yellow, red, and black varieties.

Answer 8

because there is a slightly poisonus chemical inside the carrot and if you happen to eat too many of these carrots you can possibly get sick really bad

Answer 9

yes