Purple Carrots

[Earl]

Did you know carrots were once purple?

Carrots have been around for centuries, but were apparently quite bitter and were purple, white, pale yellow or sometimes black.

So here's the cool part, the Dutch selectively bred carrots especially to make them orange which is their national colour!

We should grow red, white and blue peas.

[Alpha]

Yes. I did know.

[jools182]

Jamie 'fat tongue' Oliver grows purple carrots
He even had yellow beetroot

[timey]

I didn't know that. I thought they were orange ebcause they had carotene in them (a source of vitamin A), which is orangey-red in colour. People who eat too many carrots can end up with orange skin.

[t-v]

Did you know carrots were once purple?

Carrots have been around for centuries, but were apparently quite bitter and were purple, white, pale yellow or sometimes black.

So here's the cool part, the Dutch selectively bred carrots especially to make them orange which is their national colour!

We should grow red, white and blue peas.

Cool... purple carrots! I want navy (Scottish) potatoes!!

I wonder how they managed to selectively grow carrots in a particular colour.

[timey]

Genetic manipulation?

[Ck]

I didn't know that. I thought they were orange ebcause they had carotene in them (a source of vitamin A), which is orangey-red in colour. People who eat too many carrots can end up with orange skin.

I've noticed i'm looking a bit tanned since i've started juicing

[Earl]

Making hybrids. The orange one's are some kind of hybrid of the shitty European and Asian carrots and a pale yellow one from the Americas.

Brilliant, carrot's are neither old world or new! They're out of this world!

[t-v]

I've noticed i'm looking a bit tanned since i've started juicing

Is it a healthy glow or the Tommy Sheridan tan?

[Ck]

Is it a healthy glow or the Tommy Sheridan tan?

I thought healthy. It's only been a week so there's time for it to get deeper yet.

It was just the other night when I was in the bathroom, I wasn't looking at myself, I just caught a glimpse and thought bloody hell i look a healthy colour, these juices must be real god for me. I never thought it could be 'cos I was turing orange from the inside out.