Carrots used to be white, so how did they become orange and why? In this week”s short video, Ben plays detective as he unveils the mystery of the origins of the orange carrot…
If you want to grow your own carrots, check out this video
https://youtu.be/jvn_HHIB6tM
I love carrots so much. Been trying to grow them with 0 success. Something keeps eating the new shoots
Thank You for the History
When I harvested my carrots, I had both orange and white from the same seeds, grown in same location
Sorry we are only 2022 years old
No talk about the current slavery agenda again – 95% of the watching
people wont be here in 2030 because they took the poisoned needle
Nothing like carrots fresh out of the garden! I freeze mine.
Just got in my purple and yellow carrot seeds for next year. My orange carrots had some crazy legs but some were transplanted in.
Interesting!
I love carrots we grow all different colours the best is yellow stone! I don’t know why but I love them! They have a fantastic texture! And and massive
Love the parsnips 🙂
Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year to you and your family ❤
And it's a good thing, too. It'd be so annoying trying to tell them apart from parsnips if all or most carrots were still white.
The Dutch come into play because at the time and until the 18th century the territories of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg belonged to the Spanish Crown. So it would make sense that Spanish crops were grown there too.
Thinking it is more due that orange and yellow are the more sweeter hence more popular then the others. One grows what one sells.
Selective breeding and inbreeding is why organisms are weaker and less nutritional. Selecting for size doesn't Select for nutrients and so on. Like with everything plant life is devolving losing genetic diversity over time
Indian carrots are red. Taste and texture are quite different from orange one
Domesticated crops are genetically modified organisims.