I'd really love to see more carrots in any other colour than orange - a fairly modern genetic accident - they are sweeter, which is why the old medieval recipes for 'honeyed carrots' are revolting with orange carrots! There were white like parsnips, and other colours, yellow, red and purple. Used to be grown in eastern Countries in Europe.

The western carrot emerged in the Netherlands in the 17th century, its orange colour making it popular in those countries as an emblem of the House of Orange and the struggle for Dutch independence.