Has anyone come across an orange carrot that has a bright yellow inside?? I bought a bag from the supermarket and there was just this one carrot in there that was AMAZINGLY SWEET. I haven't been able to find any info on it. Does anyone know if it was a certain cultivar that got into the bag or it was just some fluke cross bred cultivar.. Anyone??
Trying to figure out the carrot I ate!!
I don't know the answer but the description does ring a bell, like maybe in a seed catalog I saw something described that sounds like your carrot. A good mystery! I may hunt for whatever it was I saw and post if there is something that sounds similar enough..... ;-)
unless someone here already knows.......
Cool!
Also doesn't answer your question, but there was/is a purple carrot called Dragon Purple that sometimes has yellow centers to it. Most of the time it was orange under the skin. Thus, it does not surprise me that you can see different colored centers on other kinds. I've not run across a comparison of carrots by sweetness, but this would be nice to see.
All I know is that carrot I had was much much sweeter than any carrot I've ever had. I'm going nuts trying to figure out how to get more.. Be nice to snack on something that sweet (and healthy too) other than candy. :)
(http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/nov04/carrot1104.htm)
I'd also suggest you check some of the seed companies. Lots of cool carrots.
Honestly tho, it might have just been really fresh. Any time I've grown carrots they've been phenominal compared to store ones. My husband will sit and munch fresh carrots but doesn't do that with the store bought. IMHO- anything you grow will be much tastier+)
Especially if you don't use pesticides or herbicides. Even storebought organic carrots taste different from the usual types.
It's definitely not a freshness factor. There's no way there's that much difference in sweetness between carrots, especially when it's all from the same bag of carrot that I got at the local supermarket . And I've seen lots of veggie catalogs, they all describe their carrots as sweet. I was wondering if any one had any first hand experioence with an exceptionally sweet yellow-centered orange carrot..
Maybe you could buy more bags of carrots from the same store and see if you can find another one? Then you can sprout it and maybe get seeds from it.
How do you sprout a carrot?
If you stick the carrot in question in the ground and it takes root, it will eventually go to seed if left alone. Course, if it's a hybrid, you're just wasting your time...
I've already tried that. I been buying bags and bags of carrots here trying to find another one. No luck so far. It's a pity that I already peeled and cut up the carrot when I noticed that it was sweeter than normal. If I knew, I would have planted it instead. Out of curiosity, is there a way to sprout the carrot with just the carrot top?
It's worth a try if there is enough of the top left.
There are little "pores" on the sides that the carrots send out roots from. Anyone who leaves carrots in the frig too long knows what they look like.
Personally, I have had "hairy carrots" ;) LOL
Johnny's has some carrots similar to what you describe but they may be a deeper color on the outside with the yellow center.
Yes, I looked in my catalogs and that was probably the same one I saw in Johnny's and in Territorial too, a "purple" one with yellow center.....
Do try to get seed from the top, Icosden, that would be so cool!
Kyla
I wish.. I ate the carrot a while ago. That's why I'm asking here cuz I haven't found another one yet in any of the bags I bought since then.. Think I'm turning into a bunny here with all the carrots I'm eating. It's like Charlie's search for the golden tickets to the chocolate factory here. Me and my search for the golden carrot to carroty sweetness.. :)
LOL!
Sounds like you're going to start turning orange soon! I wonder if the miracle carrot was just a chance hybrid from a passing pollinator, or a stray mutant? Commercial vegetable production is done on such a large scale that it's hard to believe that a stray seed of a different type got mixed in. Does the bag....I mean do the bags say where the carrots were grown?
Bounce bounce.. :) I'm starting to think it's a chance hybrid cuz no one's piped up about any extraordinary candylike-sweet carrot here. The bag (Grimmway farm) only says distributed from Bakersfield, CA. Not sure if that's just it's distrubution location or also it's farm location. I've emailed them and no info on that so far..