How Carrots Became the new Junk Food

Re:How Carrots Became the new Junk Food by streeter on Wednesday March 23, 2011 @05:18PM (#2361511)

I stopped buying baby carrots when I found out that they are just big carrots cut down. They aren't picked early or anything. Thus, a lot of waste is created to make baby carrots.

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Re:How Carrots Became the new Junk Food by metageek on Wednesday March 23, 2011 @05:54PM (#2361642)

According to the article, baby carrots were invented to reduce waste. Carrots grow into all sorts of shapes and sizes, but supermarkets only buy a narrow range; the rejects get used for animal feed, or factory food. With baby carrots, more of the carrot gets eaten by humans—and presumably the stuff that's cut off is still sold the way the rejects used to be.

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Re:How Carrots Became the new Junk Food by wtn on Wednesday March 23, 2011 @06:46PM (#2361823)

Shaved carrots.

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Re:How Carrots Became the new Junk Food by GaryOlson on Wednesday March 23, 2011 @09:11PM (#2362329)

Single, dual, multi-blade or electric? Seriously, do you go for the clean contoured shave or multifaceted polygonal surfacing? Is a shave effectively different from peeling?

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