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Improving Nutritional Health
Stephen Ausmus USDA ARS/Photo
ARS researchers have selectively bred carrots with pigments that reflect almost all colors of the rainbow. More importantly, though, they’re very good for your health. By Jan Suszkiw Public Affairs Specialist USDA ARS
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are looking to beef up your salad— not with complementary
slices of tender chicken, steak Philipp Simon, research or other meat but rather new, leader of the ARS Vegetable improved varieties of carrot Crops Research Unit in and onion. Madison, Wisconsin, is
coordinating the effort to fortify these popular salad items and fresh-market (Cont. on Page 23) favorites