What Color A Carrot at Color

What Color A Carrot. Carrots are orange because oranges are orange. Different colored carrots were first cultivated in distinct parts of the world and are now available globally to consumers.

What color were carrots originally? Quora
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Carrots can naturally grow in a range of colors, including purple, yellow and white. The first carrots were eaten thousands of years ago in afghanistan. So typically, the color of carrot that you’re eating, it directly corresponds with the nutritional value or the nutritional compound found in that carrot.

What color were carrots originally? Quora

[the following is from a blog post i made in 2009 from my colourchat account] carrots are orange because they absorb certain wavelengths of. The colour of yellow, orange and red carrots is the result of certain carotenoid pigments present in the root. They are a tamed type of the wild carrot, daucus carota, belonging to europe and also southwestern asia. These carotenoids can be divided into hydrocarbon pigments or carotenes and oxygenated pigments or xanthophylls.