Experiments were performed with carrots of cultivar Nantes. The carrots were harvested
from fields south of Budapest, Hungary, in November 2010. After harvesting, the carrots were
stored under 7,5±1 °C temperature and 85±2% relative humidity. The experiments started on 17
November 2010. Carrots were divided into 5 groups and 9 carrots were in each group. At first,
the length, the maximum diameter and the mass of each carrot were measured. The size and mass
of the carrots were as follows: 30 to 35 mm diameter, 23.0-29.5 cm length and 0.20-0.24
kg/carrot. Carrot slices were cut with perpendicular to carrot length at the upper 70±5%.
Furthermore cube shaped samples were cut out of the both of parts of carrots xylem and phloem
and the size of the cube shape samples was 9x9x9 mm. Figure 1 shows the measured parts of
carrot.