Josie Ford
On the origin of carrots
Do you know where your carrot, if you have a carrot, comes from? A new study from the University of L’Aquila in Italy outlines one approach to finding out.
“It must be noted…” the paper explains, “that the methods proposed so far for tracing the geographical origin of carrots as well as for discriminating between organic and conventionally grown carrots, are somewhat scarce.” In this report, partially titled “Geographical discrimination of Italian carrot (Daucus carota L.) varieties”, Samantha Reale and her colleagues explain exactly why and how they addressed that scarcity.
In a way, they …