Carrots with yellow flesh and a purple exterior were first cultivated in Afghanistan, its native land 4,000 years ago . They were also cultivated in the Mediterranean area, but weren’t considered to be an important food there. Instead they were grown for their leaves which have a pleasant fragrance.
To make butter more attractive in color, carrot juice was used by people in the Middle Ages.
The word ‘carrot’ first appeared in English around 1538 in a book of herbs. Before that a carrot was called a ‘tank’ (from 1400) or ‘clapwype (1425).
Carrots were originally purple, white, red or yellow. The Dutch bred orange carrots in the 16th century in honor of their Royal House of Orange. Orange carrots were considered a symbol of prestige.
Orange carrots first became popular in England during Queen Elizabeth I's reign.
Britain created the myth that carrots improve eyesight to distract the Nazis from a new technology, Radar, they had developed for night raids. When the newspapers asked how pilots were shooting down Nazi planes in the dark, the RAF simply responded that all the carrots the pilots had been eating improved their vision.
Baby carrots (aka baby cut carrots) are actually just the cores of carrots not fit for store shelves, and were only invented in 1986 by a California farmer named Mike Yurosek.
Before the invention of the baby carrot, each American ate 6 lbs of carrot a year, now they eat 11 lbs.
To make butter more attractive in color, carrot juice was used by people in the Middle Ages.
The word ‘carrot’ first appeared in English around 1538 in a book of herbs. Before that a carrot was called a ‘tank’ (from 1400) or ‘clapwype (1425).
Carrots were originally purple, white, red or yellow. The Dutch bred orange carrots in the 16th century in honor of their Royal House of Orange. Orange carrots were considered a symbol of prestige.
Orange carrots first became popular in England during Queen Elizabeth I's reign.
Britain created the myth that carrots improve eyesight to distract the Nazis from a new technology, Radar, they had developed for night raids. When the newspapers asked how pilots were shooting down Nazi planes in the dark, the RAF simply responded that all the carrots the pilots had been eating improved their vision.
Baby carrots (aka baby cut carrots) are actually just the cores of carrots not fit for store shelves, and were only invented in 1986 by a California farmer named Mike Yurosek.
Before the invention of the baby carrot, each American ate 6 lbs of carrot a year, now they eat 11 lbs.
On November 7, 1990, the European Court of Justice ruled that carrots are a fruit for the purposes of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The case was brought by a French farmer who was challenging a decision by the French government to deny him a subsidy for his carrot crop. The farmer argued that carrots should be classified as a fruit because they can be made into jam.
The court agreed with the farmer, ruling that the CAP's definition of "fruit" should be interpreted broadly to include any plant product that is edible and can be made into food products such as jam. The court's decision was controversial, but it remains in effect today.
The type of carrot Bugs Bunny usually eats is a species called Danvers.
Bugs Bunny ate carrots because his creator Friz Freleng loved the film It Happened One Night, where Clark Gable eats carrots while talking quickly. Also Gable gets called "Doc" throughout the film.
Mel Blanc, who voiced Bugs Bunny was allergic to carrots. He had a spittoon installed in his studio so he could spit out carrots when he had to bite on them.
Carrots aren't actually that good for rabbits, since they are high in sugar, and they don't form a natural part of their diet.
11% of all pet rabbits have tooth decay due to their owners feeding them too many carrots.
British shoppers have found a way to scam supermarkets by passing expensive vegetables off as cheap carrots at self-service tills. Carrots are one of the cheapest vegetables in supermarkets, leading to some customers to purposely select the “carrots” option when weighing expensive vegetables on the electronic tills, thereby reducing the cost of their shopping.
The world's biggest carrot producer is China, which in 2011 accounted for more than 45 per cent of the global output.
The world's longest carrot measured 19 feet 1.96 inches and was grown by Joe Atherton of the UK in 2007.
Weighing in at a whopping 10.17 kg (22.44 lb) the world's heaviest carrot was grown by giant veg gardener Christopher Qualley of Otsego, Minnesota, USA in October 2017.
The part of the carrot that we eat is called the taproot.
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| Carrot on a plate. By Bi-frie Wikipedia Commons |
A raw carrot is still alive when you eat it.
Carrot juice is ten times more radioactive than beer.
Source Food For Thought by Ed Pearce, Daily Express
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