were do baby carrots come from?

Question

Ever since I was 4 I wanted to know were baby carrots came from. PLEASE TELL ME!!! When I was 4 I thought that the male carrot and the female carrot breed. But thats stupid. Tell me what really happens.

Answer 1

when a mommy and a daddy carrot love each other very much... just kidding.

a baby carrot is just a carrot that hasn't grown fully.

Answer 2

Some varieties of carrots (as well as other veggies and some fruits) are bred to be small. Others are labelled "baby" carrots, or spinach or whatever simply because they've been picked at a very early and tender age.

Animals can breed themselves or can be bred to a specific other animal of the same type by their human owners, to encourage certain traits. Plants can be bred by growers in search of the same specificiity of traits.

It's call genetics. And it has nothing to do with genetically modified plants.

Answer 3

True baby carrots of the Nantes variety are full-grown but have been bred small. Most baby carrots, however, are of the Imperator variety -- a long, slender carrot that is peeled and chopped into smaller pieces. Bred to ripen fast and grow long, they look small once chopped. Hope this helps.

Answer 4

You must be talking about those things they sell in bags that are labeled "baby carrots". They are simply regular carrots that are mis- shapen, or break while processing. Those are put through a wash and shape process, like a rotating drum that shapes them uniformly

Answer 5

If you harvest (plug out of earth) carrots before they are fully grown, they will be called baby carrots.

Answer 6

they're sometimes purely little carrots, different situations they're great carrots decrease as much as appear like little carrots. i'm quite valuable they're made out of better carrots extremely some the time.

Answer 7

Carrot seeds.

Answer 8

from baby carrot seeds at stores

Answer 9

There are actually no baby carrots. They are in fact grown up carrots cut into 2-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. These baby carrots are sold in single-serving packs with ranch dressing for serving on the side. They're passed out on airplanes and sold in plastic containers designed to fit into plastic cup holders. At Disney World, burgers come two ways - with fries or with baby carrots.

These Minis as the carrot industry likes to refer to them, are the brain child of one farmer, Mike Yurosek, of Newhall California, who 16 years ago was discarding 400 pounds of unsaleable carrots a day, those that were either twisted, bent, knobby, or broken. In some carrot loads, up to 70% of the carrots had to be discarded. The idea hit upon him to cut the carrots into uniform 2-inch pieces that can utilize the straight pieces, smooth the edges, and peel them. Nowadays this whole process is down to a science, the carrots have even been bred to make them more suitable for this process, they are larger then your store bought carrot, so on average can be easily broken into 3 uniform pieces, and they are also bred for smoothness, sweetness, and a cylindrical quality too.

Mr. Yorosek is definitely no stranger to marketing innovations. In the sixties he was selling branded carrots in plastic bags with a Bunny-Luv logo on them, which now represents one particular producer's Organic Carrots today. In the sixties when the logo first appeared, farmers using it got in trouble with Warner Bros., which was very protective of their Bugs Bunny brand. As a solution, Mr. Yorosek had his wife draw 50 different bunnies, the one you see today is what Warner Bros. felt acceptable to them as not infringing upon their own brand.

I hope you understand now

Answer 10

They are regular carrots cut into that shape