2006-08-23 14:37:08 · 22 answers · asked by patchpew 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
high levels or beta-carotene
2006-08-23 14:38:18 · answer #1 · answered by babygurl 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In their truly natural state carrots are a pale, insipid color and look more like a knobbly swede than a carrot.
To make them more appealing growers have cross bred them (and more recently genetically modified them) to give them a more uniform texture, surface and the typical color we see today.
A lot of other vegetables are like that. For example, completely natural potatoes are really ugly looking things with lumps all over them.
So the reason they're orange is to make them look more appealing. The color is beta carotene which is a natural color found in various plants.
2006-08-23 14:49:15 · answer #2 · answered by Trevor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its orange because it is made up of orange cells
2006-08-23 14:39:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They arent only Orange. They come in white, purple (yes Purple) and yellow as well.
2006-08-23 14:42:59 · answer #4 · answered by Kevin P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually in some countries they have purple carrots
and red oranges called blood oranges.
orange due to levels of carotene, one of which, beta carotene, is very good for you.
2006-08-23 14:43:43 · answer #5 · answered by DainBramaged 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has to do with the speed the electrons
circle the nucleus of the atom.
2006-08-23 14:45:23 · answer #6 · answered by kyle.keyes 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because it eat orange too much
2006-08-23 14:46:19 · answer #7 · answered by my angel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you sure? orange! really, bloody nora then what have I been eating?
2006-08-23 21:32:18 · answer #8 · answered by andy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they produce a pigment like our glands that produce colour instead of making them sweat
2006-08-26 14:41:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were bred that way. They used to be very white.
2006-08-23 14:42:55 · answer #10 · answered by Aaron E 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God wanted them that way. But seriously, beta carotine.
2006-08-23 14:39:37 · answer #11 · answered by hazeleyedbeauty1967 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋