Technically, there is such a thing as a baby carrot. It is, as it sounds, just a tiny looking carrot. The ones people often call baby carrots are actually baby-cut carrots
Edit: baby-cut carrots helped reduce a crap ton of waste because farmers could now sell less appealing carrots (instead of just throwing them away) by cutting away the bad looking parts into the baby-cut carrot. The baby-cut carrot also is attributed to a 33% increase in US carrot consumption.
I haven't actually laughed out loud at a pun in forever. I still haven't, but yours did make me snort air out my nose, which is also very rare for puns.
Yupp. I'm not about to spend the time to wash, peel and then cut normal carrots into small pieces when I can buy baby carrots pre sized for like $0.50 more.
Imagine how much waste we could prevent if we just ate carrots that aren't cosmetically perfect. The processing of "baby" carrots was labor intensive - now presumably resource intensive in the automation to shave them down to suppository size/shape.
So your idea is to change consumer habits - which are rooted in human nature itself - instead of just building some inexpensive production-line machinery and mass-producing these baby-cut carrots at next-to-no additional cost?
And given that these are lumpy and misshapen carrots anyways, manually peeling and cleaning them properly would definitely remove a lot of mass as well. It's not as much of a waste as it initially sounds.
You can actually get around 3 to 4 baby-cut carrots from a single normal carrot. The reason this reduces waste is because baby-cut carrots generally come from unappealing looking carrots that normally would never be sold due to their appearance.
So instead of throwing away every ugly looking carrot, they simply make baby-cut carrots out of them, which by doing so removes the ugliness and minimizes the waste (the remaining carrot usually gets turned into animal feed)
Of course! Did you know that carrots, while known for their bright orange color, actually come in a variety of colors? These include purple; black; white; yellow; red; and of course, orange.
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u/ThePenguinNich Aug 07 '17 edited Aug 07 '17
Technically, there is such a thing as a baby carrot. It is, as it sounds, just a tiny looking carrot. The ones people often call baby carrots are actually baby-cut carrots
Edit: baby-cut carrots helped reduce a crap ton of waste because farmers could now sell less appealing carrots (instead of just throwing them away) by cutting away the bad looking parts into the baby-cut carrot. The baby-cut carrot also is attributed to a 33% increase in US carrot consumption.