Meaning of baby carrot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A carrot harvested and sold when immature and of a small size.
2. A small finger-shaped piece of carrot cut from a full-sized carrot.

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Examples

“The baby carrots and the little rosebud beets which are being thinned out of the garden should be canned at the present time.”

“Harvested as baby carrots, these varieties, planted early in the season, averaged 74 micrograms of carotene per gram of sample (range by varieties, 70 to 85 micrograms); corresponding samples harvested as mature carrots of at least 2 inches crown diameter averaged 180 micrograms per gram (range, 146 to 255).”

“A baby carrot is okay, but a carrot that is allowed to reach the peak of maturity is going to be sweeter and full of flavor—provided it hasn't become too old.”

“The California carrot production industry developed a high value "cut and peel" or "baby" carrot product using higher quality, more slender 'Imperator' type hybrids that was immensely popular at retail.”

“Baby carrots aren't just ordinary carrots cut down to size. […] They are made from a special variety of carrot that is cut down to the baby carrot size. They're delicious eaten cooked or raw.”

“The baby carrot as we know it is the brainchild of California farmer Mike Yurosek. Watching as much as 70 percent of his carrot crop go into the waste heap of his Bakersfield packing plant, Yurosek figured out how to factory-whittle the ungainly rejects into the orange missiles that we now call "baby carrots". […] Presto—the Baby Carrot, which now dominates supermarket carrot sales. Its arrival has cut down agricultural waste, but it has added more packaging, along with extra cost to the consumer. Baby carrots like to congregate in children's lunch boxes—where, however, they are often delivered stillborn straight to the trash.”

“Mike Yurosek, a California farmer, revolutionized the industry by dreaming up the "baby carrot" idea. […] By 1989, Yurosek had built a mechanized operation to turn out his product. Marketed as baby carrots, the miniatures are not young vegetables at all. "They're grown-up carrots cut up into two-inch sections, pumped through water-filled pipes into whirling cement-mixer-size peelers, and whittled down to the niblets Americans know, love, and scarf down by the bagful," journalist Elizabeth Weise writes.”

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