Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?

doesn't it have something to do with beta-carotene? (I'm not sure if oranges have that too... which explains why I am not a dietician.) maybe that's why they were called carrots? er... I guess they should have been called carotenes. LOL.

this reminds me of something I heard/learned many moons ago about colour and how colour only exists where there is light. the argument, in this situation, was about whether a carrot was orange at all when it's in the earth because there is no light present to make it appear orange. (as you probably know, colour only appears once light hits the surface of an object and reflects a specific spectrum of light that we see as a specific colour.) so, it a carrot orange even under ground? yes, I think it is. a very dirty orange, of course. but, we can only observe it as orange once it is pulled from the earth. I thought it was a dumb theory then as much as I do now. things need to "exist" in order to "be" in my opinion.

I think an even more important question is which tastes more orange... an orange or a carrot?!

Go ahead, ask me somethin'!