SuperRare

While most of the carrots we eat today
are orange, the frst cultivated carrots
were purple and yellow. It wasn't until a
carrot geneticist with the U.S.
Department of Agriculture started
cross-breeding purple carrots from
Syria that they started coming back into
supermarkets. However, they're still
fairly rare and sometimes cost higher
prices, 41]
No one's sure how the orange carrot
took over the others, but some
believe that purple carrots fell out of
favor because they might turn
whatever else they were cooked
with purple.
One story says that the orange
carrot was developed in the
Netherlands to pay homage to
William of Orange, but there's no
evidence to support this claim 42]