How do we cheat, selling baby carrots in US stores
'15.06.2021'
Source: Huffington Post
Don't trust the baby carrot. One of the most popular in America (and not only) ways to deceive customers is selling small, one-to-one, neat carrots allegedly grown by farmers in convenient plastic bags.
Do you know what they are made of? Quite right - this is 100% the most common carrot, standard and even large size, writes Huffington Post. Despite the cute name, baby-carrot is, in fact, ordinary, quite ugly at first glance, shapeless and rather large carrot, which is divided into smaller parts, processed, giving a rounded shape, clean, wash and pack for convenient snacks.
And here is a video confirming this fact:
Baby carrot was originally invented as a farm trick aimed at increasing carrot sales. Mike Yrosek, a California farmer, came up with baby carrots in 1986, because most of the carrots grown were too ugly to buy well. Back in 80, supermarkets purchased only the most beautiful vegetables from farms, forcing them to turn an aesthetically imperfect product into juice or animal feed. But most of them were just thrown away.
In an attempt to give the ugly carrots a second life, Yurosek put a few vegetables in an industrial green bean slicer, turned them into identical 2-inch pieces, ran them through a potato peeler - and got almost perfect, attractive mini-carrots. He sent them off to grocery stores in California, where the product became an instant hit.
On the subject: American cheated by selling another animal under the guise of a mini pig.
Today, baby carrots account for about 70% of all carrot sales in the United States, with carrots among the top seven most consumed fresh vegetables in the country. Most of today's baby carrots are sliced versions of the Imperial variety, which is grown using a special technology to produce elongated and thin vegetables. They are easier to cut into baby bites.
To avoid the spread of infections, such carrots are treated with a solution of chlorine, which kills certain bacteria. It is safe and FDA certified: the solution does not leave harmful traces. The remains resulting from the cleaning and cutting of carrots, go to fertilizer, turn into juice or fed to animals.
All in all, baby carrots are great and really healthy. But you shouldn't get carried away with it: if you eat too many carrots, your skin can turn orange due to the excess pigment in this vegetable.
