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I was going to post that Orange carrots were deliberately created (or atleast grown in quantity and sold) by farmers to celebrate William of Orange and Dutch in
by helsinkiandrew 3y ago
I was going to post that Orange carrots were deliberately created (or atleast grown in quantity and sold) by farmers to celebrate William of Orange and Dutch independence, but this appears not to be true (or atleast unproven)
https://www.livescience.com/why-are-carrots-orange.html https://www.livescience.com/why-are-carrots-orange.html
My local market sells a bag of mixed coloured carrots - white, purple, yellow, and orange - and the orange is by far the sweetest and tastiest, some other colours are fairly inedible raw.