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Hey
Everyone welcome back to our quick food fax segment
Today's topic might just make you do a double take
When you grab a carrot from the fridge
Did you know carrots weren't always the bright orange we know in love
We really
I've only ver seen orange carrots at the store
What color with the originally
Oh
They were way more colorful back in the day carrots were mostly purple or white and sometimes even yellow or red h orange carrots they didn't exist it all that's wild
So how did orange carrots become the norm
There's got to be a unn story
There
There are absolutely is in the sixteen hundreds
Duch farmers started growing orange carrots on purpose
It was a tribute to the dutch royal family
Whose name is orange
Turns out
People love the new color
And it caught on fast
No way
That's such a cool piece of history
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So are those old school purple carrots gone forever
Not at all
You can still find them in some supermarkets or farmers markets
And get this they taste almost the same as orange ones just a little sweeter
I need to track those down
Next time i bite into an orange carrit
I'll definitely remember its purple roots
Right
Food history is full of surprises
Thanks for hanging out with today
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