1. The word carrot is first recorded in English in a 1538 book of herbs.
2. When first cultivated, carrots were grown for their leaves and seeds rather than their roots which is what we now think of as carrots.
3. The part of the carrot that we eat is called the taproot.
4. Carrots were originally white or purple. Then a yellow carrot appeared through mutation and the familiar orange carrot was bred from it.
5. The domesticated carrot that we know today originated from the wild carrot called Daucus carota which was native to Europe and south western Asia.
6. Cultivated carrots are usually made up of about 88% water, 7% sugar, 1% protein, 1% fibre, 1% ash, and 0.2% fat.
7. It was the Dutch who bred the orange carrot because orange was the traditional colour of the royal house of the Netherlands.
8. “Carrots keep you healthy and help you see in the blackout,” (British Second World War slogan).
9. It is true that eating massive amounts of carrots can sometimes cause a person's skin to turn yellowish orange. This is most noticeable on the palms or soles of feet and is called carotenemia. But don't worry it requires a high amount of carrot consumption and is completely fixable just by reducing carrot intake.
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