Orange Not Your Carrot

Carrots are known to have orange color but actually their orange is not exactly their color.There are varieties of color the carrots exhibits like purple,yellow and red.

The orange color is not the natural color or carrots but actually purple.The orange color was brought by hybridization or the product of cross breed or yellow carrot and red carrot by Dutchmen as said in the history of 16th century farming which become successful.Dutchmen farmers do the cross breed in the honor of the House of Orange.

The House of Orange is a princely dynasty in Medieval France with Orange surname on the Princes names

The actual natural color is purple as they said.

Carrots is rich in  pro-vitamin A, vitamins C, D, E, K, B1 and B6 and biotin, potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, organic sodium and some trace minerals.

Purple Carrots said to be Natural Color of Carrots

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Summarised Timeline of Cultivated Carrot (documentary evidence)
Time Period	Location	Colour
Pre-900s	Afghanistan and vicinity	Purple and yellow
900s	Iran and northern Arabia	Purple, Red and yellow
1000s	Syria and North Africa	Purple, Red and yellow
1100s	Spain	Purple and yellow
1200s	Italy and China	Purple and red
1300s	France, Germany, The Netherlands	Red, Yellow & White
1400s	England	Red & white
1500's	Northern Europe	Orange, Yellow & Red
1600s	Japan	Purple and yellow
1600s	North America	Orange and white
1700s	Japan	Orange and Red
Sources - Rubatzsky and Banga. Also Carrot Museum's Curator research material Reference material is here. Notes: Red was often confused with purple.  Orange carrots may have been around well before 1100 - see here. The above listing is a "best guess" as there is much conflicting evidence. Carrots were also probably White throughout these periods, often confused with Parsnips (also white). There was (and still is!) enormous confusion when trying to sort out the individual histories of carrots and parsnips. The Latin name for the parsnip genus is thought to come from, meaning "food". This would further explain the historical confusion of the two vegetables, as well as offer a testament to how important they both were in the ancient diet.

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