baby carrot

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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