Rabbits love to eat carrots but they shouldn’t eat too much.
Remember that a rabbit eating a single carrot is like us eating over twenty! They like the sweetness and carrots are good for their teeth and don’t have white sugar but even too too many natural sugars with cause digestive problems and diabetes. They probably would do better with the carrot tops. We would benefit from tops also but probably won’t eat them!
Carrots are the second most popular type of vegetable after potatoes.
The biggest carrot recorded is more than 19 pounds and the longest is over 19 feet!
You can see them at this link biggest carrot but they aren’t particularly pretty!
There are over 100 species of carrots.
Some are big. Some are small and they come in a variety of colours including:
Orange Carrots Purple Carrots White Carrots Yellow Carrots Red Carrots
English women in the 1600’s often wore carrot leaves in their hats in place of flowers or feathers.
The name “carrot” comes from the Greek word “karoton,”
The beta-carotene that is found in carrots was actually named for the carrot itself!