Average carrot is about 8.5 inches in length

There are approximately 7 carrots per pound

The ancient Greeks called carrots ‘karoton’.

In the middle ages, carrot juice was used to make butter more appealing.

Contrary to popular belief, baby carrots are not grown bite-sized. They are bred long and slender, and then cut into two-inch pieces and lathed to uniform width.

Two carrots give you enough energy to walk two miles.

CA processes 80% of the carrots in the nation.

On an average day, the operation processes 2.5 miles of trucks loaded with 10 million pounds of carrots.

Did you know carrots were originally purple? They also come in red, orange, yellow and white – check out our rainbow bunch carrots to see!

The longest carrot in recorded history (1996) was 16 feet, 10.5 inches long. The heaviest carrot in recorded history (1998) was 18.985 pounds (single root mass).