Carrot
also called domestic carrot
About
A standard grocery store carrot is a tapered root vegetable about the length of a new wooden pencil.
Carrots show notable variation in size, ranging from small bite-sized types to massive competition specimens grown for county fairs. Compared to botanical relatives like parsnips, standard orange grocery carrots are usually slightly slimmer and more evenly tapered. Heirloom varieties that come in purple, yellow, or white often share this general size profile. Commercial growers harvest them in their first year of growth before the root turns woody.
From Wikipedia
The carrot is a root vegetable in the umbellifer family Apiaceae. Carrots are typically orange in colour due to their beta-carotene content, which makes them a rich source of vitamin A.
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Questions people ask
- How big is a carrot?
- A typical carrot measures about 7.9 inches (0.2 m) long and 1.4 inches (0.035 m) thick, weighing roughly 2.5 ounces (0.07 kg). That makes it roughly as long as a common table fork.
- How much space does a carrot take up?
- About 6.76 tbsp (100 mL), the volume of its body.
Weight
2.47 oz (70 g)
- Space it takes up
- 6.76 tbsp (100 mL)
- Length
- 7.87 in (20 cm)
- Height
- 1.38 in (3.5 cm)
Quick answer
A typical carrot measures about 7.9 inches (0.2 m) long and 1.4 inches (0.035 m) thick, weighing roughly 2.5 ounces (0.07 kg). That makes it roughly as long as a common table fork.
Typical figures, the same ones every comparison on the site uses; real ones vary.
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