Following are some of the amazing facts about carrots. Read this superb article for more interesting facts.
Carrots are a taproot vegetable that has a peculiar habit of growing downward into the soil, instead of upwards toward the sun as other veggies do.
Though orange is the most available color. There are also white, black, purple, yellow, and red varieties.
Greeks used carrots to soothe stomach aches, and Romans used them to improve their love lives.
Carrots are often cut into coins and served on new year holidays around the world as symbol of future prosperity.
In the UK, there is a museum dedicated for carrots (Checkout carrotmuseum)
China is currently the largest producer of carrots, followed by the US, Russia, France, England, Poland and Japan.
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