What is a purple carrot???????

Question

i saw on a bottle of so-be drink that an ingredient in purple carrot concentrate what is it??

Answer 1

it what you call a dragon carrot.

Answer 2

It's a type of carrot.  

Answer 3

It's an heirloom variety no longer grown much commercially.  They are a variety of carrot, but are purple in color and smaller in diameter than the familiar orange carrot.  You can also find yellow heirloom carrots.  Heirloom varieties are sometimes available at farmers' markets.

Answer 4

Specimens of the eastern carrot that survive to the present day are commonly purple or yellow, and often have branched roots. The purple colour common in these carrots comes from anthocyanin pigments.

Anthocyanins (from Greek: ἀνθός (anthos) = flower + κυανός (kyanos) = blue) are water-soluble vacuolar pigments that may appear red, purple, or blue according to pH. They belong to a parent class of molecules called flavonoids synthesized via the phenylpropanoid pathway. Anthocyanins occur in all tissues of higher plants, including leaves, stems, roots, flowers, and fruits. Anthoxanthins are their clear, white to yellow counterparts occurring in plants.

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