page_title: List of Dutch inventions and innovations
section_title: Orange-coloured carrot (16th century)
hierarchical_section_title: List of Dutch inventions and innovations / Inventions and innovations / Agriculture / Orange-coloured carrot (16th century)
caption_attribution_description: English: Original caption from the USDA: "ARS researchers have selectively bred carrots with pigments that reflect almost all colors of the rainbow. More importantly, though, they're very good for your health." Français&#160;: Variétés des carottes sélectionnées pour leurs diverses couleurs. Certains des pigments responsables de ces couleurs sont bons pour la santé. Italiano: Varietà di Carote selezionate per i loro diversi colori. Alcuni di questi pigmenti sono utili nell'alimentazione umana. Ελληνικά: Καρότα διαφόρων χρωμάτων Suomi: Alkuperäinen USDA:n otsikko: "ARSin tutkijat ovat tarkoituksella jalostaneet porkkanoita joiden pigmentointi vastaa lähes kaikkia sateenkaaren värejä. Mikä tärkeämpää, niin ne ovat vieläpä hyvin terveellisiä." Tiếng Việt: Cà rốt (Daucus carota ssp. sativus) là một loại cây có củ thuộc bộ Hoa tán, thường có màu vàng cam, đỏ, vàng, trắng hay tía. Phần củ của nó chứa nhiều tiền tố của vitamin A tốt cho mắt.
context_page_description: The Netherlands and its people have made numerous contributions to the world's civilization in art, science, technology and engineering, economics and finance, cartography and geography, exploration and navigation, law and jurisprudence, thought and philosophy, medicine. and agriculture. The following list is composed of objects, unknown lands, breakthrough ideas/concepts, principles, phenomena, processes, methods, techniques, styles etc., that were discovered or invented by people from the Netherlands and Dutch-speaking people from the former Southern Netherlands. Until the fall of Antwerp, the Dutch and Flemish were generally seen as one people.
context_section_description: Through history, carrots weren't always orange. They were black, purple, white, brown, red and yellow. Probably orange too, but this was not the dominant colour. Orange-coloured carrots appeared in the Netherlands in the 16th century. Dutch farmers in Hoorn bred the color. They succeeded by cross-breeding pale yellow with red carrots. It is more likely that Dutch horticulturists actually found an orange rooted mutant variety and then worked on its development through selective breeding to make the plant consistent. Through successive hybridisation the orange colour intensified. This was developed to become the dominant species across the world, a sweet orange.
caption: Carrots can be selectively bred to produce different colours.
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