are carrots purple before they turn orange?

Question

someone close to me believes this is true cause i think shes mad but i just need to prove it

Answer 1

Nope, however there are purple carrots and they have existed for hundreds of years. There are also yellow, red and white carrots. These colorful carrots depend on different pigments for their distinctive varieties.

Check ou the different colors here:

Answer 2

No they are not, but there is a type of carrot that is purple...it is called a purple dragon carrot. Have you seen a parsnip before; this is just a white carrot. I am growing some purple carrots right now, along with some blood red carrots. They each taste different. The seeds are from seedrack.com This is a great site for all sorts of weird plants, flowers.

Answer 3

Purple carrots originated in the Middle East. They are the ancestors to the modern orange carrot. Carots became orange after many generations of hybridazation. They are also sweeter now, and have a bigger main root, which facilitate extracting it from the ground. There are many different carrot varieties, which include the colors white, light yellow, bright yellow, light orange, medium orange, dark orange, almost red, and purple.
My husband grew both orange and purple carrots last year, and it looks great together in a salad. The purple ones loose their color when they cook.

Answer 4

The original carrots were indeed purple, and depending on where you are, some still get a dark coloring on the top where they stick out of the earth, due to the sun.
But that was a loong time ago, way back in pre-Roman days. Then man took over and started hybridizing for sweetness, size, etc. The American carrot is much bigger, juicier and sweeter than its European cousin, as Americans enjoy eating carrots raw. In S. Europe the carrot is a "pot herb" meant to be put in soups and other cooked dishes, and the flavour is much more pungent and aromatic. They're not as crisp, either...not something I enjoy eating raw.

Answer 5

you can get purple carrots, red, yellow and orange ones, carrots were purple (reddish in the wild), but they do not change from purple to orange when they are growing however cause if that were true baby carrots would all be purple and normal carrots orange.

my hubby and I grow carrots, we also grow a varities that is orange centred and purple skined to add confusion to the matter.

the colour might intense, but pulling seedling carrots to thin rows of orange carrots they are lighter orange coloured, not purple 9unless its a purple variety).

I think your friend has muddled up the facts, Purple carrots or reddish toned were the wild ones, orange are the cultivar most people see in the dinner plate, so they were bred to be orange for the consumer, as purpley carrots looked less appealing and are somewhat nutter taste.

so just as you can get red tomatoes, orange, yellow, red and yellow striped and ones with green stripes and red, all at the edible 'ripe' stage, its what growers have bred for.

hope this helps

Answer 6

The carrot is to return to its roots when it goes on sale in what's said to be its true colour of purple this summer.

Growers say they have dug up the vegetable's original colour and will revert to the new hue this summer for the first time in Europe in five centuries.

Shoppers in the UK will also be able to buy black-and-white as well as previously unseen rainbow-coloured carrots by next year.

Purple carrots, which will retain their orange-coloured centre, will appear on the shelves of Sainsbury's supermarkets at a slightly higher price than the more familiar version.

Answer 7

In a way she's right. Carrots were ORIGINALLY purple.
In Roman times carrots were purple or white.
Orange roots, containing the pigment carotene, were not noted until the 16th century in Holland. This only came about thanks to patriotic Dutch growers who bred the vegetable to grow in the colours of the House of Orange.

Answer 8

No, purple carrots are actually the original carrot varierty, here in Spain we do get the purple variety when they are in season and they are the best carrots ever, so sweet and full of flavour. The orange ones came later through plant breeding

Answer 9

No - carrot roots (the nongreen part you eat) are orange from the day they start to grow a noticeable root.

Maybe you have seen a picture of some freaky new variety of purple carrot (which was probably purple from the day it started to grow).

Answer 10

Carrots used to be purple. The orange strain was developed years ago by the dutch to comemorate the dutch royal family. The house of orange. Eg. William of orange
True

Answer 11

The Western carrot emerged in the Netherlands in the 15th or 16th century, its orange colour making it popular in those countries as an emblem of the House of Orange and the struggle for Dutch independence. The orange colour results from abundant carotenes in these cultivars. While orange carrots are nearly ubiquitous in the West, other colours do exist, including white, yellow, red, and purple. These other colours of carrot are raised primarily as novelty crops.


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