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With wild carrots, the roots are white, small and skinny, so you’d have to pick a lot of wild carrots to get enough to eat.
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Wild carrots probably evolved with the other flowering plants about 360 million years ago.
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Today, cooler countries grow most of the world’s carrots.
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Then in the late 1500s,food scientists in the Netherlands cultivated large, straight, sweet, red carrots like the ones we eat today.
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That’s why horses, which also come from Central Asia, like both apples and carrots so much.
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Machines do most of the planting and picking, and carrots are easy to store and ship.
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Like apples, carrots are native to Central Asia.
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In the 1600s, people in China used carrots as medicine, but they also ate carrots boiled in soup.
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Doctors used carrot seeds and roots as medicine, on the theory that foods that taste bad must be good for you.
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But people still mostly fed carrots to horses, donkeys and pigs, and didn’t eat them themselves.
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But carrots got their biggest boost during the two world wars when food shortages forced people to eat them and governments told everyone how healthy carrots were.
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Around 800 A.D., people in Central Asia managed to develop a new kind of carrot—a purple carrot—that attracted more interest from international traders.
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