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I've been hearing a lot about baby carrots and how they are unhealthy because of how they are made and sold. i'm asking specifically about Baby carrots, not carrots in general, i already know carrots are healthy and don't make me fat. But my concern is baby carrots. So are Baby carrots bad for my health/diet?
Ps: I've been eating a lot of carrots, around 1-2 bags of baby carrots a day( 450 g)
Answer
Baby carrots first appeared in US supermarkets in 1989. There are two types - true baby carrots, and manufactured baby carrots.
A "true" baby carrot is a carrot grown to the "baby stage", which is to say long before the root reaches its mature size. The test is can you see a proper "shoulder" on each carrot. These immature roots are preferred by some people out of the belief that they are superior either in texture, nutrition or taste.
There is also a baby variety called Thumbelina, or Paris Market shaped like a golf ball (of course, not the ones you're referring to).
"Manufactured" baby carrots , or cut and peel, are what you see most often in the shops - are carrot shaped slices of peeled carrots invented in the late 1980's by Mike Yurosek, a California farmer, as a way of making use of carrots which are too twisted or knobbly for sale as full-size carrots.
There is nothing "wrong" with manufactured baby carrots. They are a food that humans have enjoyed for centuries, probably millennia, chock-full of goodness that we need to keep our bodies functioning.
Personally, having gone through the baby carrot "phase" myself, I have decided on the larger, regular carrot variety which I peel and prepare for whatever purpose I have in mind. But, either way we go, "Baby Carrot" or "Regular Carrot", we are getting healthy benefits from either one.
Baby carrots first appeared in US supermarkets in 1989. There are two types - true baby carrots, and manufactured baby carrots.
A "true" baby carrot is a carrot grown to the "baby stage", which is to say long before the root reaches its mature size. The test is can you see a proper "shoulder" on each carrot. These immature roots are preferred by some people out of the belief that they are superior either in texture, nutrition or taste.
There is also a baby variety called Thumbelina, or Paris Market shaped like a golf ball (of course, not the ones you're referring to).
"Manufactured" baby carrots , or cut and peel, are what you see most often in the shops - are carrot shaped slices of peeled carrots invented in the late 1980's by Mike Yurosek, a California farmer, as a way of making use of carrots which are too twisted or knobbly for sale as full-size carrots.
There is nothing "wrong" with manufactured baby carrots. They are a food that humans have enjoyed for centuries, probably millennia, chock-full of goodness that we need to keep our bodies functioning.
Personally, having gone through the baby carrot "phase" myself, I have decided on the larger, regular carrot variety which I peel and prepare for whatever purpose I have in mind. But, either way we go, "Baby Carrot" or "Regular Carrot", we are getting healthy benefits from either one.
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