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Carrot colorful party

  • Do you have colors you like? Ask the carrot (Daucus carota subsp. sativus). White, red, orange, purple -- if it's all. Those currently available are almost all orange. Why is there everything? What has made us just red carrots? Unforeseen.

30 November 2022 - 08:56

About 5,000 years ago, in the current area of Iran-Afghanistan, the carrot was already grown: the purple carrot. Her work seems to come from there, because of the huge variety of carrots out there. At first, a thick root was not eaten, but was served by leaves and vaporous seeds, as today their relatives: parsley (Petroselinum sativum), fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) and sarpoil or comino (Cuminum cyminum). Because the roots were not eaten, their shapes, sizes, colors... five!

We don't know the root color of the carrot that started the migration to us, but it seems that it was purple, from the purple to the oranges of today it wouldn't have been any way. Among them have been white, yellow, orange. They say Greeks and Romans ate the root. The Arabs penetrated the peninsula ascending Europe. To someone I have heard that the carrot comes from the “yellow vein” and that was the “carrot” in Spanish. However, most say that this “carrot” comes from the Arabs as “isfannariya” or “safunárya”.

According to the Dutch, they were in charge of turning the orange carrot orange more orange and tasty. In honor of their “Orange-Nassau” grill in the 17th century, they managed to make the orange color of the carrot more orange. Outside these Netherlands they say no, that they do not, that these holy kings are later, that there were already carrots that were orange, etc. Extra orange. The Spaniards want to keep the mark of the first orange carrot in the painting “Dead nature of hunting, vegetables and fruits” by Juan Sánchez Cotan of 1602.

 

 

 

The painting “Dead nature of hunting, vegetables and fruits” by Juan Sánchez Cotan of 1602.

 

 

 

Despite the occasion, the predominant carrot is orange. These are the most elaborate, the most widespread and the sweetest varieties. However, the other colors return. We will see more and more from the hands of cooks to the shelves of shops. The streaks are a season in which, as before has become widespread and dominated the orange, we get the lefties, yellow, lari, bruises, red, etc. They will sell us in the name of healing, thinning, better vision or whatever. Because it's true that if you eat raw, with your fluoride, you'll clean your teeth and prevent cavities and put the carrot paste to soften and ruin your skin. Whatever the color.


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