15: Carrots reclassified as a fruit (True )
Bureaucrats in the European Union did classify carrots as a fruit in a
1979 directive, apparently because the Portuguese use carrots to make
jam, and anything used to make jam, in their eyes, must be a fruit.

16: Purple Carrots (True )
In 2002 Sainsbury began marketing purple carrots. But carrots have
actually come in purple varieties for thousands of years. The orange
ones are the newcomers, bred to be that color in the 1500s by Dutch
growers paying homage to their royal family, the House of Orange.