Carrot
The carrot (pronounced CARE-ot) is a type of plant. Many different types exist. The Latin name of the plant is usually given as Daucus carota. The plant has an edible, orange root, and usually white flowers. Wild carrots grow naturally in Eurasia. Domesticated carrots are grown for food in many parts of the world.
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Scientific classification 
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| Unrecognized taxon (fix): | Apiaceae |
| Genus: | Daucus |
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| Subspecies: | D. c. subsp. sativus
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| Daucus carota subsp. sativus | |
Carrots are grown in the ground, and carrots roots are a common edible vegetable. After cleaning, the roots may be eaten raw or cooked. They are served as part of many dishes. In Portugal, carrot jam is a speciality.
Images
- Carrots - Carota - Wortels - Geze - 胡萝卜- zanahoria - carotte - ニンジン - Flickr - color line.jpg
Raw carrots
- Carrots of many colors.jpg
Carrots can come in different colors
- CarrotRoots.jpg
What they look like before being used for cooking.
Nutrition
Carrots are a moderate source of beta carotene, biotin, vitamin K1, vitamin B6, and potassium. Along with beta-carotene, carrots also have carotenoids another antioxidant helpful to enhance immunity functions and decreased risk of cardiovascular diseases, degenerative diseases and different types of cancers.[1]
Carrot Media
- Carrot, Juliana Anicia Codex.jpg
A depiction labeled "garden" carrot from the Juliana Anicia Codex, a 6th-century AD Constantinopolitan copy of Dioscorides' 1st-century Greek pharmacopoeia. The facing page states that "the root can be cooked and eaten."
- BetaCarotene-3d.png
β-Carotene structure. Carotene is responsible for the orange colour of carrots.
- Harvesting carrots.jpg
Workers harvesting carrots by hand, Imperial Valley, California, 1948
- Carrot seeds.jpg
The seeds of a carrot, possibly Daucus carota subsp. sativus. Cropped from the "3D" picture
- Carrotseeds3d.jpg.
- Daucus carota subsp. maximus MHNT.BOT.2007.40.407.jpg
Seeds of Daucus carota subsp. maximus – MHNT
- Kintoki ninjin by titanium22 in Nishiki Ichiba, Kyoto.jpg
Kintoki carrots, a Japanese cultivar from Kyoto Prefecture
- Carrots are up (2634523693).jpg
Seedlings shortly after germination
- Daucus carota flowers, peen 'Napoli' (1).jpg
Flowers consist of five petals, five stamens, and an entire calyx.
Daucus carota umbel (inflorescence). Individual flowers are borne on undivided pedicels from a common node.
References
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