Question: why are fruits different colours?
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if a carrot was really purple i think people would start going crazy.
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I have eaten purple carrots! They taste mostly just like normal orange carrots.. but if you peel them and cook them they don’t look purple anymore.
My best friend loves gardening and she grows carrots in all different colours – white, purple and orange – and when I went to her house, she serve them as raw carrots sticks with dip! Having three colours of carrots together on a plate looked really cool!
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well thats okay hmmm.. i was thinking . could you dye a carrot. I reckon that if you had three diferent coloured carrots that would be scary … i mean that because our carrots are orange , when i was younger i mistaked a parsnip for a white carrot i think i was lucky not to try eat it. What is your’e favourite vegie.
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Ewww.. eating a raw parsnip would not be nice!
My favourite vegie is probably pumpkin – I love it roasted and I love pumpkin soup! In fact might make some pumkin soup today..
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jemz
Fruits have different colours due to the presence of pigments in their skin and flesh.
For example, anthocyanin pigments are responsible for the red, blue and purple colours of fruits and veggies.
Beta-carotene is a red-orange pigment, famous for making carrots orange!
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What Tara said, she’s a skin specialist!
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But did you know that carrots weren’t always orange? Hundreds of years ago carrots used to be all sorts of colours, sometimes yellow or red or even purple!
Pictures of coloured carrots here: http://bit.ly/jBl3av
In the 17th Century some Dutch farmers wanted to grow orange carrots – it’s their national colour – and so they bred carrots and selected for the only the orange ones.This is an example of an early form of genetic manipulation of food.
So through farming and breeding the colour of fruits (and vegetables) have been selected for, to pick the colours that people wanted them to be. Which is why we have mostly orange carrots today.
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Fruits are different colours because of different pigment chemicals made by plants. As for *why* they’re all different colours… Fruits have probably evolved to be different colours to help attract the different animals (birds etc) that help spread their seeds.
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Fruits are different colours because they have many kinds of pigments in their skin and in their flesh. But many fruits have ended up being so bright,colourful and tasty-looking because they evolved or were bred that way.So some trees would have evolved brightly coloured fruits to attract birds and animals so they could eat them and..well..frankly, so they could take the seeds elsewhere and, ahem,poop them out.Humans would have also bred some of these plants so that they produced colourful fruit.If you look at apples, think about how there are so many different colours and varieties today.That’s because they were bred to produce fruit that looks tasty.
I should also add, as Dr Krystal says, carrots started out red but the ones we eat tend ot be orange. You can still see red carrots in India, though,and other countries.There are even purple carrots!
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