The taste of carrots

Carrots are sweet and can be eaten raw.

Carrots like warm and cold, and are suitable for growing in sandy soil with thick soil layer. Although it has the medicinal taste of Artemisia argyi, it has high nutritional value. It can be cooked and eaten raw, and can be used to cook all kinds of dishes.

Carrots have stout conical or cylindrical roots, purplish red or yellow flesh, long petioles, three pinnate compound leaves, compound umbels and yellow or white florets. Originated in Central Asia, it has a history of more than 4,000 years. In the Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian went to the Western Regions and brought carrots back to the mainland. Since then, carrots have taken root and multiplied in various parts of China. Widely planted all over the country.

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distribution range

Carrot is one of the top ten vegetable crops in the world, which is very common because of its strong adaptability and easy cultivation. Carrots are most widely distributed in Asia, Europe and America.

According to FAO statistics, in 2005, the total carrot planting area in the world was 6,543,800+0.992 million hectares, including 6,654,380+0.29 million hectares in Asia, 284,900 million hectares in Europe, 70,000 hectares in North America, 46,000 hectares in South America, 76,400 hectares in Africa and 0.9 million hectares in Oceania.

In recent years, except for the fast-growing areas in Asia, the other continents have not changed much. In 2004, China's carrot planting area reached 453,000 hectares, accounting for 42.0% of the world's planting area, and it has become the first carrot producer in the world.

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