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Carrots

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

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Baby Carrots - The Perfect Food

Four thousand 500 years. That's how old some wild carrot seeds are that were found in central europe by archaeologists. This, this is still a plant we have to day. It's just very different from the carrots in the grocery store. The main feature is above ground, you get big bunches of tiny white flowers. And like below ground there is a tiny white tap root. Its scientific name comes from the greek word daucus, which means burn.

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