Did you know that carrots aren’t supposed to be orange? In fact, the carrots you’re eating today were engineered to look that way. If you go back hundreds of years to Central Asia, where carrots originally came from, there were no orange carrots. They were purple, yellow, and white. But there was a problem. These original carrots weren’t as sweet, and they didn’t sell as easily. So in the Netherlands, in the 17th century, farmers selectively bred carrots to be orange. They wanted them to sell ea