Oh, I didn’t mean to put your comment into question. I did find pictures on the internet like these, so it seems to be a thing:
Purple carrots have been around for longer than the orange variety, though, so it’d be a bit weird to create a variety which is only purple on the outside just for scam purposes. Like, you can likely get the seeds for actually purple carrots much more easily. 🙃
From what I understand, this is what carrots often looked like originally. It was later on that we selected for more orange carrots.
Either way, they certainly don’t taste beetroot-y. I’ve heard them described as somewhat sweeter. I’ve had them only once so far, but would agree with that description in the sense that they have a more rounded taste. I think, I like their taste slightly more.
Wikipedia also says that the orange carrots probably won out not for tasting better, but rather because they don’t discolor stews, which is a fair reason.
And that even though they could’ve bait-and-switched with a whole range of colors:
The purple ones are still orange on the inside
Ah, interesting. I guess, you mean those at around 10 o’clock? I’ve had the more sort of violet ones at 2 o’clock before and they looked like this:
They colored my whole food blue, as if I had spilled some ink into there. 🙃
I could be misremembering, I haven’t had a garden in a year, I just remember feeling scammed when 1 of the colors was only on the outside.
Really nice carrot btw, girthy 🤤
Oh, I didn’t mean to put your comment into question. I did find pictures on the internet like these, so it seems to be a thing:
Purple carrots have been around for longer than the orange variety, though, so it’d be a bit weird to create a variety which is only purple on the outside just for scam purposes. Like, you can likely get the seeds for actually purple carrots much more easily. 🙃
Oh, maybe it was the reds not the purples.
Looks like they crossed them with beetroot. Interesting combination if so.
From what I understand, this is what carrots often looked like originally. It was later on that we selected for more orange carrots.
Either way, they certainly don’t taste beetroot-y. I’ve heard them described as somewhat sweeter. I’ve had them only once so far, but would agree with that description in the sense that they have a more rounded taste. I think, I like their taste slightly more.
Wikipedia also says that the orange carrots probably won out not for tasting better, but rather because they don’t discolor stews, which is a fair reason.
I dunno, I kinda want to try those to see what the colors do to my foods