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Beta carotene. They're full of the stuff.
But, who decided the labels of the colours?
Actually you identified the substance giving the colour, but not the reason for the bright orange color. Carrots can range in color from white to almost black. Yet virtually everyone only knows the orange ones. The reason is Holland. Carrots in the wild are white, early cultivated ones were purple. They were brought to Holland in the 17th century by the VOC. There they were crossed and cultivated until they were orange, the color of the House of Orange, which ruled Holland. The color obviously appealed,because from the 17th century it has spread around the world. Amazing actually.
But who decided the labels? I don't even know which labels you mean. The names of the colorants, of the substances in food, the E-numbers? I think I'll leave that question standing.
Who decided the labels of the colours?
Smartarse.
In other words, who decided that orange is orange, red is red etc? It ain't that hard a question to understand, but quite difficult to answer.
Not too difficult though. Somewhere down that long line of evolution, our ancestors developed a need to communicate more than just primal signals. They started to identify things and concepts with a sound, a sound for food, a sound for danger, and a sound for each color they saw. As these ancestors multiplied and spread around the globe, they took those sounds with them, and as they developed speech and languages, those sounds evolved into words. Those words differ in almost every language, still in many of them we can recognize a common source. Red, rood, rot, rouge, rojo all define the same color. Who decided? Nobody consciously did, they evolved, as we did.
Almost forgot a new question.
Why on earth would anyone want to go to mars, knowing it would be a one-way trip?
(www.mars-one.com)
