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10 purple foods that fight cancer, stroke
6. Purple carrots
Who knew that so many common vegetables came in purple? In the case of carrots, there’s an even bigger surprise: carrots were originally purple!
That’s right! The first carrots were grown in Afghanistan. By the 1500s, orange carrots started showing up in Europe, but the purple variety persisted in the Middle East and Asia.
One study found that the beta-carotene content of purple carrots was more than twice that of their orange cousin!
