Most oranges these days are almost yellowish or is it just my oranges from Asda?

The oranger the carrot the more force grown it is ;)

always wondered what the real name for an orange is !. after all its a bit like calling a banana a yellow and then changing its name to a brown after a week !

Did you know, the modern carrot is a hybrid of its natural ancestor - the purple carrot?

Aye for real :nod: Going back to my roots (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1991768.stm) :thumbsup:

always wondered what the real name for an orange is !. after all its a bit like calling a banana a yellow and then changing its name to a brown after a week !
It takes a week to pass through you? :huh: :o :hihi:

The Carrot originated some 5000 years ago in Middle Asia around Afghanistan, and slowly spread into the Mediterranean area

Purple, white and yellow carrots were imported to southern Europe in the 14th century. Black, red and green carrots were also grown.

For more Carrot related stuff, go here (http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/history.html)

I read that the Co-op were going to start selling purple carrots, as they thought it would help encorage kids to eat more veg.... The report I read went to great lengths to explain that these were not the product of some scientists laboratory, but were in fact grown by a farmer in Lincolnshire using organic methods.

Never saw them in the shops though

a poem, in words and semaphore!

let us sing in praise of the noble root
carrots, parsnips, and turnips to boot
roast em or boil em or put em in soup
winter warmth for the nations yout(h) :D

:clap:

always wondered what the real name for an orange is !. after all its a bit like calling a banana a yellow and then changing its name to a brown after a week !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(word)

I read that the Co-op were going to start selling purple carrots, as they thought it would help encorage kids to eat more veg.... The report I read went to great lengths to explain that these were not the product of some scientists laboratory, but were in fact grown by a farmer in Lincolnshire using organic methods.

Never saw them in the shops though

Mechanistically, there's very little difference between creating new strains by direct genetic manipulation or by artificial selection. The former is just a bit more targetted and can be used to incorporate a wider range of genes (it would be impossible, for example, to cause nematode worms to express green fluorescent protein by selective breeding alone). The latter is however often more powerful in that it requires no knowledge of the genetic basis of the desired trait and can breed for characteristics determined by several loci. The various breeds of dog and domesticated animal we have may be regarded in a sense as genetically modified organisms.

I believe that the colour was in fact taken from the fruit rather than the other way round. Therefore you wouldn't have a yellow, you'd have a banana coloured ... whatever.

Just like you can get lemon coloured, tangerine coloured... etc. etc.

Apparently the fruit was presented to the third earl of orange following an expedition to China and he liked it so much it became known as 'the fruit of orange', shortened to 'orange'.

Most oranges these days are almost yellowish or is it just my oranges from Asda?

It depends what sort of carrot or orange you get if you ask me.

I believe that the colour was in fact taken from the fruit rather than the other way round. Therefore you wouldn't have a yellow, you'd have a banana coloured ... whatever.

Just like you can get lemon coloured, tangerine coloured... etc. etc.

Apparently the fruit was presented to the third earl of orange following an expedition to China and he liked it so much it became known as 'the fruit of orange', shortened to 'orange'.


So what were other 'orange' coloured things described as previously?

Or didn't the colour exist before 'oranges' arrived?

So what were other 'orange' coloured things described as previously?

Or didn't the colour exist before 'oranges' arrived?

Yellowred; or rather, an obscure Saxon spelling which was pronounced, and meant, yellowred, just as we might still call something "bluey-green" if it's not exactly turquoise or whatever.

The word orange does, indeed, come from the fruit.

Apparently the fruit was presented to the third earl of orange following an expedition to China and he liked it so much it became known as 'the fruit of orange', shortened to 'orange'.

Back to front, I'm afraid. The fruit (naranca in Spanish, for example), had been around for centuries before the House of Orange, whom, I suspect, were named after the fruit, either directly or indirectly.