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Baby-cut carrots. Taking fully grown carrots and cutting them to a smaller size for sale was an innovation made by California carrot farmer Mike Yurosek in 1986 to reduce food waste. [3] In 2006, nearly three-quarters of the fresh baby-cut carrots produced in the United States came from Bakersfield, California. [3]
The "baby-cut carrot" is extremely popular in the United States; it is not a separate breed but a way of processing regular full-sized carrots to increase utilization and decrease waste. Mike Yurosek invented this in 1986, [ 1 ] and he and his son David promoted the baby-cut carrot in the early 1980s in Bakersfield, California through their ...
Since the late 1980s, baby carrots or mini-carrots (carrots that have been peeled and cut into uniform cylinders) have been a popular ready-to-eat snack food available in many supermarkets. [69] Carrot juice is widely marketed, especially as a health drink, either stand-alone or blended with juices from fruits and other vegetables.
Second, baby carrots can be fully-grown carrots with imperfections that have been cut and peeled away. This second method, developed in the 1980s by farmer Mike Yurosek, ...
If your go-to snack includes baby carrots, congratulations: you’re doing great things for your health. New research presented at the Nutrition 2024 conference found that a snack of baby carrots ...
The baby-carrot industry is obsessed with unrealistic beauty standards. Not all carrots can be cut and trimmed to become the perfectly straight, perfectly thin baby carrots that people will buy ...
By 2002, the company was able to process millions of pounds of baby carrots a day. [5] In 1991, Grimmway Farms began expanding into different areas of agriculture with the acquisition of Belridge Farms (citrus). [6] The expansion continued with the acquisition of Mike Yurosek & Sons, another carrot processing company, in the early 1990s. [7]
Bolthouse Farms, founded 1915 in Grant, Michigan, is a vertically integrated farm company specializing in refrigerated beverages, salad dressings, and baby carrots. It is located in the San Joaquin Valley of California and is headquartered in Bakersfield, California in Kern County. The company operates facilities in Prosser, Washington.