Hi All,

We have started other Did You Know Series, vegetable facts. Today we will talk about Carrot facts. The carrot is a root vegetable, usually orange in color, though purple, black, red, white, and yellow cultivars exist. They are a domesticated form of the wild carrot, Daucus carota, native to Europe and Southwestern Asia. Let’s have some interesting facts in brief

1. The carrot is a root vegetable with the most generally eaten part being the taproot.
2. The carrot is commonly orange in color though purple, red, white, and yellow sorts additionally exist.
3. The domesticated carrot that we recognize these days originated from the wild carrot known as Daucus carota which used to be native to Europe and southwestern Asia.
4. The authentic plant of a carrot (greens above ground) can develop up to 1 m (3.2 ft) tall and vegetation around June to August (northern hemisphere summer) with a vivid white flower.
5. Cultivated carrots are commonly made up of about 88% water, 7% sugar, 1% protein, 1% fiber, 1% ash, and 0.2% fat.
6. Carrots are cooked and eaten in a range of distinctive ways. The vegetable is regularly pulped, mashed, boiled, puréed, grated, fried, steamed, stewed, baked, juiced or eaten raw. Carrots are generally used in stir-fries and salads however additionally in soups and brought to infant ingredients or pet foods. They can be dehydrated or deep-fried to make chips, flakes, and powder.
7. The herbal sugars and sweetness of carrots enable them to be used in carrot desserts of western countries, in India they are used as desserts, whilst international locations such as Portugal use carrots in jam. Carrot juice is broadly consumed, especially as a fitness drink, with or except different fruits and vegetables.
8. In truth, even the veggies are fit for human consumption as a leaf vegetable though this is rare.
9. Ancient Greeks and Romans ate carrots however now not the orange sorts we understand today, they ate the much less cultivated wild types of more than a few different colors.
10. In the seventeenth century, western carrots first regarded in the Netherlands. Dutch carrot growers invented the orange carrot in honor of the House of Orange, the Dutch Royal Family.
11. The orange shade outcomes from ample carotenes in these cultivars, commonly the beta-carotene which is a strongly colored red-orange pigment located in some plant life and fruits.
12. The human physique turns beta-carotene into diet A and carrots are one of the nice sources for beta-carotene. Vitamin A is vital for the fitness of our imaginative and prescient (including our night time vision) as properly as our bones, tooth, and skin.
13. The city legend that ‘eating massive portions of carrots helps us to see in the dark’ used to be developed from testimonies started out in World War II. British gunners had been capturing down German planes at night time and to cowl up the truth that it used to be the advantageous use of radar applied sciences that was once reaching this, the RAF circulated a story about their pilots’ excessive stage of carrot consumption.
14. The world’s greatest carrot producer is China, which is 2011, accounted for over 45% of the world’s output. China was once a long way in advance of Russia and the United States who are the 2d and 1/3 very best producers respectively.
15. The carrot is in the pinnacle 10 of the most economically necessary world vegetable crops.
16. It is proper that consuming huge quantities of carrots can occasionally purpose a person’s pores and skin to flip yellowish-orange. This is most substantial on the fingers or soles of ft and is known as carotenemia. But do not fear it requires an excessive quantity of carrot consumption and is absolutely fixable simply via decreasing carrot consumption