Carrot Trivia – Fun Facts About Carrots Cooked & Raw

Besides being healthy and delicious, carrots have a rather amazing history.

I recently came across a Web site you will truly enjoy if you love carrots and if you love trivia.

Here’s a small sample of the interesting Carrot Trivia I found on the site… but do yourself a favor, visit this site and see it for yourself… you will be amazed!  A link to the site is at the end of this article.  Enjoy!

• Carrots have the highest content of beta carotene (vitamin A) of all vegetables.
• The Longest Carrot recorded in 1996 was 5.14 metres (16 feet 10 ½ inches)
• The Heaviest Carrot recorded in the World 18.985 lb 1998 (single root mass) John V. R. Evans, USA
• Carrots were first grown as a medicine not a food.
• The classic Bugs Bunny carrot is the "Danvers" type.
• Carrots are not always orange and can also be found in purple, white, red or yellow.
• Carrots were the first vegetable to be canned commercially.
• The carrot is a member of the parsley family including species such as celery, parsnip, fennel, dill and coriander.
• Holtville, California dubs itself "The Carrot Capital of the World." with an Annual Festival, now in its 60th year.
• The Anglo-Saxons included carrots as an ingredient in a medicinal drink against the devil and insanity.
• Researchers at the USDA found that study participants who consumed 2 carrots a day were able to lower their cholesterol levels about 20 percent due to a soluble fibre called calcium pectate.
• You get 10 mg of Vitamin A from 20 average carrots.
• There is as much calcium in 9 carrots as there is in a glass (250ml) of whole milk.
• China produces 274,900,000 tons of carrots per year.
• Wild rabbits do not eat carrots – you have been watching too much Bugs Bunny !
• Three Carrots give you enough energy to walk three miles.
• One pound of carrots will make approximately six to eight ounces of carrot juice.
• A teaspoon holds almost 2000 carrot seeds.
• On an average day, the year-round operation  at Grimmway Farms in California processes 2-1/2 miles of trucks loaded with 10 million pounds of carrots.
• Carrot is a symbolic of fecundity (look it up).
• The Flaming Carrot was a mysterious and demented comic book superhero.
• The British developed high-carotene carrots during World War II in order to enhance the night vision of their pilots (via massive consumption).
• Amazon bookstore includes over 200 books with the title "carrot" in them.
• The last meal on the Titanic included creamed carrots in the fifth course.
• In the 1960s, Viola Schlicting, from Texas, created the first carrot cake from her German carrot-nut bread recipe.

I harvested these fun facts from this Web site: http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/index.html 

If you go for this sort of thing you’ll LOVE this Web site…

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Written by Dr. Russell J. Martino, Ph.D
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