![]() ![]() ![]() Yellow carrots in the Western group probably mutated into more orange hues, which farmers then selectively planted. These domesticated carrots were later split into two main classes: the Asiatic group, which was cultivated around the Himalayas, and the Western group, which grew largely in the Middle East and Turkey. ![]() Wild carrots started off as either white or pale yellow, but changed to purple and yellow when people first domesticated the vegetable almost 5,000 years ago in the Persian Plateau area, according to a 2011 report that Stolarczyk co-authored. A portrait of William of Orange (Image credit: Shutterstock) ![]()
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