The bizarre 'carrot claw' was grown by Peter Jackson, 66, in the garden of his home in Shropshire.
But Peter thought nothing more of the wacky-shaped vegetable and merely took a picture before proceeding to cook it, much to surprise of his daughter Lindsay.
Lindsay, 42, a chef from Condover, Shropshire, joked whether the hand might count as all of her 'five a day' in one go.
She said: 'We couldn't believe it, it was quite a shock to see a carrot perfectly shaped like a hand.
'You'd think that with me being a chef and my dad a gardener, we might have come across something this strange before - but we never have.
'My dad just seemed to make some joke about it being 'handy', took a picture and then I think they just ate it. He played it all down, but that's just the way dad is.
"We've not had anything weird since - no arms or legs to go with it. I don't think his garden is trying to build a carrot man. Now that would really be unusual.
'It was just one of those one-off freak of nature occurrences - but isn't it funny?'
Peter, who is a semi-retired gardener, has three vegetable plots in his large garden, in a leafy part of Shropshire.
He said that throughout his years of gardening, he had never seen anything quite like his 'carrot claw'.
Other oddly-shaped veg to hit the headlines over the years include baby-shaped pears, a parsnip that looked like a witch and a potato teddy bear. Earlier this week a gardener cut open a Jalapeno pepper to see a smiley face, complete with eyebrows, looking back at him.
