The Home of Orange Carrots

Whenever there are international games, fans who root for The Netherlands don orange outfits, and this isn’t a simple coincidence. Its flag bears white, red, and blue, but the orange pervades much of Dutch civilization, indicating the royal family belonging to the House of Orange.

So why are carrots colored orange? The tale has it that the vegetable initially came in white or yellow. Still, Dutch agriculturists in the past initiated nurturing orange types of carrot as a tribute to William’s House of Orange. The carrots then rose to fame and disseminated around the globe to become the vegetable’s conventional color.