Baby Carrots vs Normal Carrots

Once in a while, I buy baby carrots out of sheer laziness to cute up normal carrots. Cute and convenient as they are though, I noticed they’re less flavorful and the color is less vivid than the regular sized carrots. Have you noticed the same?

Aside from being more expensive than normal carrots, here’s another reason why baby carrots are not a good idea: they are said to contain less beta-carotene than the normal carrot (up to 30% less!).

I would have gladly paid for the premium of having ready-to-eat uniformly sized carrots, especially on busy days when I don’t have much time for chopping, but now knowing they are less nutritious than regular carrots, give me knobbly, irregularly sized carrots anytime!