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carrot

英 ['kærət] 美['kærət]

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With wild carrots, the roots are white, small and skinny, so you’d have to pick a lot of wild carrots to get enough to eat.

Wild carrots probably evolved with the other flowering plants about 360 million years ago.

Today, cooler countries grow most of the world’s carrots.

Then in the late 1500s,food scientists in the Netherlands cultivated large, straight, sweet, red carrots like the ones we eat today.

That’s why horses, which also come from Central Asia, like both apples and carrots so much.

Machines do most of the planting and picking, and carrots are easy to store and ship.

Like apples, carrots are native to Central Asia.

In the 1600s, people in China used carrots as medicine, but they also ate carrots boiled in soup.

Doctors used carrot seeds and roots as medicine, on the theory that foods that taste bad must be good for you.

But people still mostly fed carrots to horses, donkeys and pigs, and didn’t eat them themselves.

But carrots got their biggest boost during the two world wars when food shortages forced people to eat them and governments told everyone how healthy carrots were.

Around 800 A.D., people in Central Asia managed to develop a new kind of carrot—a purple carrot—that attracted more interest from international traders.

Dad pulled out a pressure cooker and filled it up with cabbages, eggplants, potatoes, corns, onions and carrots.

I carefully extended a long carrot, with a keen eye on those teeth, and before long, there were times I would have the groundhog sitting next to a rabbit, both munching on carrots.

Last October, while tending her garden in mora, Sweden, Lena Pahlsson pulled out a handful of small carrots and was about to throw them away.

The groundhog still didn't have a problem with me scratching her back, and I got an ides, I'd always thought, while slicing up carrots, that the end looked like a cap.

When I threw carrot slices, they even came for a nibble.

with them, there's not the same embarrassment as when buying one carrot in a little greengrocer.