According to the National Carrot Museum in the UK, carrots were purple. These vegetables also had some offshoots -yellow and white ones which appeared in the wild.
The orange carrots we know and eat today are actually the result of a genetic mutation in the late 16th century that won out over the original colour. At this time, the Dutch were primarily known as carrot farmers.
Dutch growers in the late 16th century took mutant strains of the purple carrot and gradually developed them into the sweet, plump, orange variety we have today
The purple ones still do exist, but by far are the minority in the world of carrot colours.
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