Colorful Carrots
A rainbow of differently colored vegetables is already available at farmers' markets, but those colors may be brightening up your grocery store before long. "The reason colored carrots are certain to take over Walmart is not because they look cool (they do) or even because they taste different (they don't)," Schonwald writes. Instead, it's the potential health benefits. Red carrots could be infused with lycopene, the antioxidant found in tomatoes. Yellow and orange ones would pack beta carotene. Purple carrots would get their color from a class of pigments called anthocyanins, but those don't seem to carry added nutritional benefits.
