The longest carrot ever grown was longer than a car!
It stretched out very far. Most carrots are only as long as your hand.
💡 Vegetables — Fun Facts
Fun “Did you know?” facts about Vegetables — tap through 10 at a time!
The heaviest pumpkin ever grown weighed more than a small car!
It was far too big to carry. A whole family could not lift it together.
Onions can make your eyes water when they are cut.
Cutting an onion lets out a gas that tickles your eyes. That is why some cooks tear up.
Tomatoes are actually a fruit, even though we eat them like a vegetable.
Because they have seeds inside, they count as a fruit. But they taste great in dinners.
Peas grow in a row inside a green pod.
When you open the pod, the little peas pop out. They line up like beads in a case.
Broccoli looks like a tiny green tree on your plate.
Its bumpy top and thick stalk look like a little tree. It is full of good vitamins.
Potatoes grow underground, hidden beneath the plant's leaves.
Farmers dig them up from the soil. Potatoes can be boiled, baked, or mashed.
Carrots used to be purple, not orange.
Orange carrots became common only a few hundred years ago; older ones were purple, white or yellow.
Cucumbers are about 96% water.
That's why cucumbers taste so cool and refreshing. Being almost all water, they're very light and a nice way to help you stay hydrated on a hot day.
Carrots used to be purple before they were orange.
The earliest carrots were purple, white, or yellow. Orange carrots became popular only a few hundred years ago in the Netherlands, and now they're the ones we see most often.