@Timothyswallehz@mastodon.social They still taste great, but vitamin A helping eyesight is (mostly) a WW2 propaganda campaign to help hide the development of radar allowing Brits to target German planes at night. Truth is weirder than fiction, yo. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/carrots-cant-help-you-see-in-the-dark-heres-how-world-war-ii-propaganda-campaign-popularized-the-myth-28812484/ #gardening