Eli5: Why do vegetables like carrots and potatos exist?

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Is it for the plant to store energy and we just simply evolved to take advantage of that?

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Yes. Carrots and many other root vegetables use that energy to produce flowers, we just harvest them before they can. Potatoes are a way the plant reproduces. It spreads underground using tubers.

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