Did you know that thousands of years ago carrots were originally purple and yellow? This article explains it. They were eventually cultivated by the Dutch to become more disease resistant and carrots became orange.
Linking to Gillena's Sunday Smiles.
23 comments:
I love all things purple and blue! Happy Sunday, Denise.
Purple colour is good for a nutritious food
good morning-I did not know that-thanks
It is interesting to know. I haven't seen these around here. But I think I have had then when I lived back East.
These are so pretty. Not orange originally. Good to know about carrots. I do eat a lot of them.
Interesing! Thanks.
I he seen them in the shops here, but not tried them!
Awesome colors.
I have never eaten or even seen such beautiful, purple carrots.
The purple carrots are so interesting, Christine. I've not seen any in the grocery stores here.
A great variety :)
They're pretty.
That is cool, I didn't know that :-D
There carrots in my soup.
Hmm...interesting. I never thought carrots would be any other color.
This was really interesting. I've had some of those new purple carrots and I like how they look.
Nunca había visto zanahorias moradas. Te mando un beso.
Wouldn't those be lovely in a soup or salad.
The history of food is always fascinating. Thanks for sharing this Christine.
Thanks for the informative post
Looks purple-y good.
Yes, I did know about the others. It's ashame that we don't have more of these. Easy to grow at home, thankfully homesteaders keeps these fun things alives.
Interesting. Good information.
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