From the December 2014 issue of Environmental Nutrition (EN)
Crazy for Carrots
Carrots are best known for their abundant source of the pro-vitamin A and antioxidant beta-carotene.
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The folklore. Carrots were first cultivated about 1,100 years ago in the Afghanistan region, but seeds from its predecessor, the wild carrot, have been found in Europe dating back 5,000 years, when they were not grown as a vegetable, but as a medicinal herb and aphrodisiac by ancient Greeks and Romans. The first domesticated carrots […]