The carrot (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) is a root vegetable, generally orange in shading, however purple, red, white, and yellow mixtures exist.

It has a fresh surface when new. The most regularly eaten a piece of a carrot is a taproot, in spite of the fact that the greens are once in a while eaten too. It is a trained type of the wild carrot Daucus carota, local to Europe and southwestern Asia. The residential carrot has been specifically reproduced for its enormously augmented and more agreeable, less woody-textured palatable taproot. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reports that world creation of carrots and turnips (these plants are consolidated by the FAO for reporting purposes) for logbook year 2011 was very nearly 35.658 million tons. Half were developed in China. Carrots are generally utilized as a part of numerous cooking styles, particularly in the arrangement of servings of mixed greens, and carrot plates of mixed greens are a custom in numerous territorial foods.