{"id":4233,"date":"2022-08-30T09:04:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T07:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/2022\/08\/30\/carrotscolour\/"},"modified":"2022-08-30T09:04:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T07:04:57","slug":"carrotscolour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/2022\/08\/30\/carrotscolour\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrots&#8217;colour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;]What color are <em>carrots<\/em>?<br \/>\nWell, the answer isn&#8217;t that simple&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>They can be orange, or yellow, white, purple, black&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The external color is given by the pigments proportion (<em>beta-carotene<\/em> or <em>anthocyanins<\/em>), a factor which in turn depends on the type of seed, the conditions of the soil, climate and more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>However, if today (almost all over the world, as far as I know) carrots are often associated with the color orange, in the past, this was not the case.<\/p>\n<p>The image below bears witness to this: a detail of the artwork &#8220;<em>Market scene<\/em>&#8220;, painted by the Flemish artist Pieter Aertsen around the middle of the 16th century.<\/p>\n<p>Here you see the carrots as they were at that time: purple!<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve never seen Bugs Bunny gnaw on a purple carrot, have you?<\/p>\n<p>By the way, <strong>INOX BIM<\/strong> can provide you with the best fridges for storing your carrots. No matter what colour they are.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;]What color are carrots? Well, the answer isn&#8217;t that simple&#8230; They can be orange, or yellow, white, purple, black&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}