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Questions about selecting, identifying, storing, preparing, replacing or cooking with carrots as a main ingredient.

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Why are non-orange coloured carrots so uncommon?

I was under the impression that most carrots were originally more purple and that it was essentially bred out to be replaced with todays more common orange carrot. … After having sourced some purple carrots recently I would guess that the reason they remain uncommon today is that, as with many other purple foods (beetroot for example), they have a tendency to dye everything …
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